If i’m placing a copied or blueprinted platform, it should be able to paste “on top of” an existing space belt or pipe destroying them and replacing it with the platform.
The behavior works with standard machines on standard belts, since we’re making platforms that serve as larger modular machines, why not scale that behavior logically
Heck you could even limit the behavior to “Shift-placing”, i’m kind of surprised it doesn’t work that way already

I was smushing shift quite hard and puzzled why this didn’t work.
The same can be said for Trains,
Train Stations will replace ontop of a rail
Loaders/Unloaders will NOT replace ontop of a rail
Even with shift :(
Loaders/Unloaders will replace on top of rail if it faces the correct direction.



Coming with 1.0 you will be able to hold Shift to replace these, and generally the platform placement should be more smooth!