Yeah, use conveyors as a tool for automation, and not for transportation. It's best to have things be compact and have stations that produce specific things from start to finish rather than a main bus like in factorio. The game is also easier to play in this way. The biggest source of lag is usually item objects, so try to minimize those.
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Man I kinda feel like starting over because of that then lmfao
Conveyors are easily the cheapest way to transport items though... maybe the more compute-resource-efficient methods should be made cheaper (and the range on hovering hands longer) if you want to encourage their usage for long distance transport.