it's hard for me to understand why you're so against what I'm doing
To be clear, I'm not at all against how you or anyone else plays. I only object to inaccurate of incomplete claims of efficiency.
There are far more players that read these forums than post on them, and I do not wish for them to be misled.
E.G. you say you don't want to build and sell factories multiple times because the goods spent upgrading them is then "wasted"
The reason such a statement is incomplete is that it doesn't take opportunity cost into account.
If selling a factory frees up space and population that can be used to produce 8x the goods "wasted" on the previous building, it results in a net profit.
E.G. 2 you have a very early perspective of the game that misses some of the scaling and exaggerates the importance of early costs. Like a tier 1 factory upgraded from level 1 to level 23 costs under 200,000 Tier 1 goods. Sounds like a lot to "waste", but when you consider that advanced cities make that in 2-3 days it really isn't.
E.G.3 you have said
1. you don't want or need to build more workshops
2. you don't plan to complete the event at least in part because the production requirements are "tedious"
These are both perfectly acceptable statements individually but taken together they are in conflict. Events offer some of the highest rewards for lowest effort in the game, but if your city can't even handle the easiest version of the event elvenar has ever had, you are imo missing out. Take the Phoenix that you said you want to use- Getting 2-3 evolutions instead of 6 or 7 means you get 50% less boost out of those birds. (and less pop/goods/coins/whatever)
EG 4 Your continued disdain for the tournament does not seem to be based on facts or anything more than the narrowest short-term goals. Like when the only example you used to compare it with the world map was the encounter that cost 41 and not the one that costs 160 or any of the others in-between.
Again, far more players read the forums than post here, so it is important to provide complete, accurate, and factual information.