Is no one else struggling with the electricity limits for larger projects?

I was so excited to fully develop Skylands after I beat the main story. Started off by taking inspiration from the subway station and made two dueling rollercoasters that connected every island. I wanted them to have lights, a station at each island, and eventually wanted to develop every island too. I had lots of really ambitious plans that I was fully prepared to spend months working on.

well I got about halfway through adding lights to my two tracks before I got the dreaded "there's no point to place more of these" messages for a wireless connector. I essentially made it about 10% of the way through my full plans before hitting the cap.

Sure maybe I could be slightly more efficient with my generator usage and placement and maaaaybe that would be enough for me to finish the lights on ONE track, let alone the second one, let alone power all of the other islands I hadn't even touched yet.

did Pokopia really expect we'd only want to fix up one island in Skylands? did they really think the generator/energy limits wouldn't be reached painfully quickly for a determined autistic like myself?

I haven't really seen other people complaining about this yet and maybe I'm just a bit ahead and other people haven't reached the caps as part of their larger developments. If Minecraft could run limitless on my crappy laptop of 2010, there's no excuse for a Switch 2 game to have any limit at all let alone one so stifling!

legit I'm considering looking into a way to mod the game to remove the limits but just wondering how others are dealing with it or feeling about it

Edit: the suggestions on how to go about making things work are helpful but they're missing the point here: we shouldn't *need* to completely rework or reduce any overall plans we have because of a completely arbitrary limit cap. You can argue that that's just the philosophy of the game to have limits and we'll just need to agree that kind of philosophy doesn't vibe with my play style

Edit 2 4/5/26: it's been about a week and I decided to try some suggestions and compromises, only to run into another limit. There appears to be some blanket limit on all lighting irregardless of if you have enough electricity to power them and are below the connector limit. I'm not sure the exact number, but it's unfortunately a real thing. With the lighting limit, I still wasn't able to complete even one section of my track. Just gonna have to put this game down