You might be more into Terraria, Necesse, and Core Keeper. The excessive automation of Factorio as opposed to it being a compliment to a full game always turned me off it. Modded Minecraft with tech mods was fun because it was still Minecraft underneath. I could go explore and mine by hand and then feed my pulverizers ore when I got back to base. Core Keeper strikes a decent balance as well. You can automate some stuff but it's largely unnecessary and IMO not worth the time other than putting drills on the big ore boulders and sending the ore straight to a furnace. I still sort items by hand and then use the quick stack function after a trip, like I would in Terraria.