I just don't get this. I feel like people back port their learning experiences to games that have a similar enough structure. A nice observation, but you can't go in the reverse direction by playing Factorio to learn something tangible. Factorio doesn't have the same failure granularity as the real world and so the usefulness of the analogy/mindset just doesn't do it for me.

Plus my skill can be replaced by roughly how well I can memorize other peoples' factory patterns.

Don't get me wrong though, it's a great game, and probably had the same impact for its genre as Doom had for FPS games.