Describe your suggestion

Would you ever consider adding simple storage networks to E2E? I don’t know if you would consider it antithetical to the pack philosophy but I figured I would ask anyway. Of course you would remove all other functionality of the mod other than the crafting terminal, the storage cables, and the network controller, and also give the controller a similar recipe to the RFTools storage scanner to keep it balanced. The only issue I could think of is that the network doesn’t have a power cost, but the Storage Scanners power cost is basically irrelevant anyways.

The RFTools storage scanner in my experience has a poor UI, drops my fps down to 70
whenever the interface is open and i have it attached to multiple storage crates, even keeping a disconnected crate for my items with NBT Data doesn’t seem to help this issue.

Thank you for your consideration.

Why would you like this added/changed?

I believe the introduction of my suggestion will be on par in terms of usefulness and balance with the proper recipe changes and removal of any automation capabilities, simple storage networks has almost identical capabilities of the RFTools storage scanner, with a modernized user interface and is less prone to bugs and framerate drops. It would help make the bridge between the AE2 Gate a little more user friendly without upsetting the already established balance of storage systems in this modpack.

The only downside I can see to this potential proposal is it demotivates players to get to AE2 faster if they aren't getting tired of dealing with the flaws of the storage scanner.

Given that AE2 is already pretty early, and can easily be rushed, there is no need for SSN. The FPS drops from Storage Scanner might as well be partly from JEI, but that's hard to say without further investigating (and really isn't big enough to be worth doing).
No matter when SSN would be introduced, with or without autocrafting, it would be too close to AE2, or too similar to what Remote Storage can achieve.