for me, the thing about ee is not that its easy to get items, its not that the items are powerful, (i do like the archagels smite, but thats all) but to my the thing about ee is that ALL THE ITEMS ARE RENEWABLE. without that it would be almost impossible to complete a factory (or whatever) with everything in it. i dont care if i takes 2 mc days per diamond. if you want the whole thing to be mining for resorces, be my guest and play vanilla. and since tekkit is the modpack of automation, it only makes since to be able to atomate it. in short, raise the startup costs, make it take longer, and give me automation. thats tekkit.