My day job is getting alignment and approvals on fixing things. Factorio is deciding to fix something and then doing it.

Have you tried Factorio multiplayer? I tried it with some other people and it really is like real life.

Somebody put in an ugly hack to deal with scaling rather than rearchitect? Well, I'd like to fix it but it'll mean downtime that'll interrupt player 2's OKR of getting the rocket control units made.

Plus, we didn't allocate enough space, so I need to talk to player 3 who owns the adjacent area (and whose functionality I don't understand). Player 3 doesn't like the idea of moving or redesigning that area, so I'm going to try asking Player 2 or Player 4 to help me rebuild it in an undeveloped area.

Building the new section while the old section is still running has overdrawn on our electricity capacity, which has been oversubscribed for a while but we just kept accumulating tech debt on electrical with ugly hacks. Which brings me back to step 1.

Exactly. I can completely disrupt my factory to refactor it for hours without worrying about pesky end-users and other stakeholders.

Having a PM to help me stay focused would not be a bad thing when I play Factorio. However, that would probably come bundled with having a PM constantly ask me to half-ass (I mean MVP) three different new projects in the factory in the time it would normally take me to full-ass one project.

Three halves > 1 full, sounds like a win to me! /s

I'm of the first type. I love Factorio, I bought it when it was still pretty much unknown (I'm a hipster like that), but I can't bring myself to play it while I'm in my current state of extreme burnout. I have a hard time writing code, I really can't muster the strength to play "programming and refactoring, the game."

Or those that go: "its like my day job and there are no idiots stopping me from solving problems!"

And the third kind who goes "this game is fun! but it's like my day job, why don't I just do that for fun instead?"

Of course Factorio doesn't come with obligations to document and hand over your glorious creation...

Good lord... I'm #2... I also play FortressCraft and Satisfactory and other games of the genre... after working on the same crap all day.

You missed those who say "I do this for fun, just like my day job!!!1!"