Foundry is a very calm, pleasant building game I'd play if I got tired of several other ones

The first sign of a building/automation game that's destined to really get its hooks into me is the gulf between screenshots from veteran players and the reality of what I can build. 

Me: Check it out! I ran this conveyer belt of metal rods into a container, and then that container feeds them into a machine that makes some other thing. Isn't that cool? 

Foundry's developers, streaming the game: Behold our megalopolis of steel and cinder that stretches from horizon to horizon. We have...