It doesn't un-nerf plank creation. (Use a handsaw or only get two planks)
It doesn't un-nerf base-IC2 changes like requiring a wrench and refined iron plates to make a machine block. It doesn't un-nerf requiring plates for RE-batteries, tin cells, etc.
It's sad, because people spent so much time bitching about GT nerfs they never realized the mod is primarily a resource multiplier. More than the obvious 3x(plus) from the grinder, but the extra output recipes and the additions of new metals as basically extra-outputs like aluminum and tungsten that substituted for more common recipes. GT makes what you dig out of the ground go further.
With 3.10, the mod has jumped the shark. It's season 7, time to toddle off to the fan-cons.
The extra dusts or tiny dusts are used for GT only in most cases, so unless you are going to try use GT to its full you are getting no real resource multiplier considering the setup costs involved, its bit of a snow ball effect, EI you want to make A so you need make B, & B has an extra tiny output that can be used to make A, but required a lot so you have to make some overly complex system to gain XX amount of tiny dust & so on, often the same with cells, GT compliments no other mods, or to put plainly GT outputs are of no use in other mods, as the other mods have there own ore/resource multipliers, this is why I feel that GT is more of a stand alone mod (if an addon could be), with near all other mods in the main stream packs you can go one of three or four ways to resource multiply, & each compliments the other or at least can be interchangeable, GT stands out on its own & wants to force others to follow its lead, & be force I mean edit there recipes & try nerf there items & machines, this I hope will be met with strong opposition as was the case with the omniwrench.
But then again Doc I know your a die hard fan & will never change, thats fine but you must see that the players that GT is aimed at are moving away from the mod, weather more are coming to GT than are leaving I can not say, maybe its a case of ppl that have lost hope with GT are more vocal I just cant say but it sure looks like more & more are losing interest each time theres an update or another antic from the author, its a pity really I so liked GT at the start, dont you wish there was a do over button for some things.