Devs have already said that there will be substantial change to the tech screen so I will not say anything more than, I skip to the Tech tree to choose my next tech.
I think it would be helpful to have a tech governor where you could enter an objective tech and the AI gov would auto-choose the shortest route to that tech. When the objective is reached it would go back to manual or a new objective set.
In the huge map games micro managing becomes a huge problem so any help is useful.