Yeah people talk about GT:NH being this super tedious hard pack, but it actually has tons and tons of quality of life fixes to the various mods that make it up - and voiding materials is something that is almost nearly gone (iirc very early on a single block, even steam, losing power would lose the materials, which made learning early steam (especially the alloy smelter) really painful).
GT:NH is a very interesting software project in itself, a long-living open source environment with devs maintaining forks of a lot of mods included in the pack and backporting features and fixes to 1.7.10, custom tools for development/planning and a lot of spreadsheets with data
