FWIW, you can turn them off. I always play with them disabled. Just not what I'm interested in. You might enjoy that, too.
I also enjoyed shapez, but it's no comparison to the depth of Factorio, especially with mods.
As such, you could not build a natural, normal transport system - for example, a central ring road or subway, with routes radiating outwards off of the ring. The only way to build a viable city was to understand how the transport sim worked, and then build a transport layout to fit how it worked.
The SimCity series was less about building a city than it was about managing traffic.
SimTower was less about property management, and more about elevator management.
Factorio is less about building a factory, as it is about resource routing. Or, later, programming trains. Or later, god knows what, I haven't gotten that far.
Baldur's Gate III is less about defeating the BBEG through RPG mechanics, and more about choosing who to romance (Karlach).
My ideal games look something like Siemens PLM NX or something, and less like a one-armed bandit in Vegas.