Yep.

You don’t magically color a square green and have ✨the market✨ suddenly materialize a wholesome high-rise building for you.

You gotta have a supply chain for gravel, concrete, bricks/prefabs, metal (rebar), and electrical stuff, and you should also have the vehicles and manpower (which is bused in) to actually turn all of that into a building. You gotta make sure water is actually pumped there, pipes aren’t magic. Sewers aren’t magic. Electricity requires network planning. It’s great. So long as the road isn’t bottlenecked by your many construction vehicles. You need more roads? Sure! How much asphalt are you producing?

And that’s the easy mode. The “full” experience has you manage the fuel supply chain and maintenance for said construction vehicles, which you can now only buy at the border instead of at the garage. You also have garbage collection, recycling, it’s a full time job that still manages to be more interesting than any job I’ve had lol

There’s an infamous let’s play of the “full” game that basically has the first hour or two completely paused just preparing the start of the game.