I've played this and have many of the older builds still and have supported the game via patreon for over a year.
I do get how it works. It's still tedious. Every build I start over rather than import. I have a list of combinations and even keep screenshots where certain species are, even the best possible combinations for me to win just about every invasion. Just so I can make life easier when I start over. But in the end its still tedious because sometimes you seemingly can just get them without trying meaning you won't know what you did that time and a majority of the time I'm spending it collecting, bonding, exploring, and jumping between all territories to get my supplies.