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Reika I'm quite happy that at least finally a mod dev has come out and posted what you did there. On the whole I agree with what you said and would like to add a couple of my own thoughts.
First of all, as someone else posted a long time ago, the entire concept of people citing this mod is "op" is skewed. Mostly people claim this without actually comparing one mod with another. Without comparing 2 things/items/mods/concepts it's actually impossible to claim that something is "op" because a singular thing/item/mod/concept cannot be op simply because it's singular. The entire idea of comparison being to compare one thing to something else.
In addition, I'd like to add that creativity, as you pointed out, is driven by ideas and those ideas need to be (in the world of modded MC) be coded into mods. When vanilla MC was first released the idea of ore multiplication simply didn't exist. Someone came along and thought to him/herself...wouldn't it be interesting to double ore output at the cost of something else. One thing leads to another but all those things together leads to innovation. If Eloraam hadn't ever thought of RP's frames or pneumatic tubes it might have been years before we'd have seen something like KingLemming's ducts or WayOfFlowingTime's translocator (or whatever the name is).
FInally, I firmly believe that "op" only exists because we choose to use certain items/methods. Sure, I know IC2 provides the possibility of tripling my ores when I play FTB. Thing is, I actually don't even want to bother putting in the effort to get to that stage, aside from the material cost. I've not played RC yet (seems like a cool mod from what I've read/seen) but at the end of the day it's MY choice whether I use certain methods or not.
I'm currently even back to also playing a vanilla MC world just to see what challenges I can put to myself and how I can solve them. I'm a huge fan of Etho, for instance, purely because he chooses not to use the default and/or easy route.
Simply keep on coding what you feel like coding. At the end of the day, it's people's own choice what to use AND how to use it.
Cheers,
Bel*.