For anyone who hasn't tried TE, give it a shot. Yes, there's more on the way. Upgrades, new generation, new machines, new storage, powered tools and armor, and some other things.
For anyone who thinks TE is "too slow", congratulations, you are a caveman and are completely missing the point of a tech mod. A Pulverizer keeps up with a Quarry. For some reason people feel that a single Pulverizer should keep up with 47 Quarries.
Do you sit and stare at your machines and wait to manually pull ores out? Oh what's that, you don't? So why is it such an imperative for your machine to process instantly and then sit idle 90% of the time?