Yeah once you work out the winning strategy the game kind of falls apart. IMO there's not enough options and there's not enough touch choices - in my win I researched every single technology (except "end natural predation" which describes doing DNA modification to every apex predator and injecting contraceptives into all of the herd animals and that skeeves me out quite a bit), finished every single infrastructure project (except for a couple of the really long space ones that were in-progress and the geoengineering ones that have disastrous side effects), and didn't have to pass any of the "harsh but effective" policies like enforced veganism or degrowth.