Nicol Bolas
Terrarian
Glass Kiln, honey dispenser, and the alchemy station are all pretty rare as is. It's no more tedious than the current default of crafting everything (in fact, it's less tedious because you don't have to worry about storage anymore.)
The thing is... couldn't you just go to the crafting station? That is, if you know all of the research for the components of a thing, and you're standing in front of a crafting station, wouldn't it be good if you could just hit a button that says, "Look, I can dupe-up all of this stuff and make any number of X's right here, so let me research X without having to click all those buttons."