I don’t generally agree, but there aren’t very many racial techs either - most of the techs (Firearms, Psionic, etc. - the damage channels) are shared and always the same, giving mods and general operations to use. The secret tech is where the bulk of the crazy comes from, and I’m okay with that because it all synergies in fun ways with the racial and damage channel research. The racial techs, however, all have very, very unique units for every race, which is the meat of what faction you want to play as, plus some racially specific and incredibly powerful operations and docterines.