Yeah, I'm mostly an aesthetic builder, so i shoot for the lazy (but aesthetic!) solutions. So yeah, no quarries for me either. I also like to mine from time to time. But the neatest things require a good deal of basic mats soooo...That's pretty crazy. I'm strictly doing the mining by hand (Almost. I have a turtle making the 1x2 tunnel for me to mine off of lol) simply because I think having a quarry basically hand you the mats free of charge takes a lot of the challenge out of the game.
I find myself getting bored of worlds a lot faster when there is no challenge.
After I get my railroad setup and my boilers are all setup and running I'll only be getting mats through bees that can be gotten through them.