I personally like the idea of having only a few mines and oil rigs but setting them to filthy rich so that they last me forever. I hate covering them up either knowingly or unknowingly i.e. progressing to a new era of history and oops you built your weapons factory on top of a uranium deposit and your banana plantation is on top of an aluminium one.

I'd personally like to see it so that you can set not just how much a node has in terms of quantity but how many nodes there are. So instead of having them peppered all over an RNG sandbox map, you might have only 1 or 2 of a particular resource. Again, set them to filthy rich and they last you forever but you don't have to feel guilty/annoyed about covering up another one.