So i finally have a bunch of hours of seat time of the new expac and i have noticed that in all the games the AI is awful at managing resources and/or not using them.

Really stinks to get into 200+ turns into a Godlike game and the AI is running around with all their ships still in crappy starter weapons with no signs of upgrading or making anything that makes sense.  Huge hulls with 15 attack is preeeeetty bad and sad to run into once you survive the early game Ai OP.  So for science i went console and God to just inspect everything and 200ish turn game AI has basically all the techs but is still just making small/medium ships with starter weapons. They have tons of starbases that control resources and they are spending the resources but i have no idea on what.

Would it be better to mod out the resource cost just to get the AI to build late game stuff? Or is my game just somehow borked. I am currently running unmodded besides a few quality of life changes but i cannot imagine how that would make the AI just build garbage.

Anyways just wondering if its just me before i sink another 6-10 hours into a new game hoping my late game happens and im not just fighting against starter weapons all game.