Maybe, but the real thing I enjoy about Feed the Beast is the automation. I automate mining and the transportation of those resources into an ever-expandable and modular storage system that holds all the items virtually inside data disks. Through that same storage system, I've automated the crafting of several key items, where I send a request to craft an item and the system will search for and use resources inside of itself to craft the requested number of items, crafting necessary prerequisites if necessary.
Basically, I don't know if I could return to hand mining everything and having to balance perilously on the edge of construction when I could automate everything and use jetpacks and gravitation engines.