Let me explain:

When I first meet Gleba I did a "Play around with Gleba and build accidentally a factory in the process" approach, like what I did at all other planets, and the space platform. But I failed miserably. Basically because everything got spoiled when I tried to experiment with it. (I ...

My opinion:
If the point was to find the one optimal design that beats all, and you couldn't immediately find it.
It's not finding your optimal design. But the one intended design. And that's why both Gleba and quality are not very fun. Rather only okay.

Especially Gleba forces you a high speed ...

What about another solution: Instead of spreading biolabs to more planets, engage building labs on each planet by adding some kind of (master-)slave laboratories as a late game item.

Slave labs can be built on other planets but they each need to transmit their scientific results via radio to a to ...