Once upon a time new content was something to look forward to... new techs made you stronger and / or allowed you to do more.
Not so ever since we entered the great artic/oceanic stagnation - insane amounts of non tradable goods required to get new ... avatars
, and the umpteeth house and supply building that no one really needs. And as far as the oceanic terminal goes, this will actually get weaker with the extra research - 20 goods more to fill the extra slot and the well trained crew candidate getting diluted with even more useless newbies
Apart from the convenience of having the old "research a tech" quest auto-complete, is there any other reason to go through the motions of doing this? And how many more parts of Oceanic will be inflicted upon us... will we see some genuine new content (and finally GBs producing highly saleable FE goods...) before or after Oceanic part 27?