Sadly I'm intentionally avoiding Tesseracts. Part of the fun for me is the pipe-routing systems. I don't have (can't find) hard numbers on the Thermal Dynamics fluiducts (which I like better for the visuals) so I'm using Ender Fluid Conduits. I don't believe they have an internal inventory, so that's not an issue to 'fill'.

I'll admit that the Turbine settings are a little weird to me. I would rather have an option at the reactor to vent excess steam than an option at the turbine to vent excess water. As a result I usually run my reactors a little under their max. (via control rod settings). Having more granular control there lets me run the turbines closer to 2kmB/t than a more efficient reactor where the control rods only make larger changes.

The only way I can think off hand to do this would be to rig up some type of buffer steam tank between the reactor and the turbines. If the combined output could ONLY pull what the turbines needed, then I could set a fluid monitor to kick on a dump valve when the tank capacity got over half. Of course the reason to keep it at half would be to make sure that the turbines never drop below max speed if the dump valve takes a little extra before closing. This in turn would require constant water input to top off for that loss.

And no worries about your 'tone of voice in text' This being reddit, I'm usually guarded about people who want to prove others wrong without having a discussion, but if someone has a legitimate point of view that can/will back-up, I'm more than happy to talk 'shop' :-)

The bottom line to all of this is I'm familiar with the general reactor layout designs, and I tested about 8 or so in a creative world before deciding what I wanted to blow the resources on in a Survival world. I'll admit there are some aspects to balancing this system that are still challenging to me, but gaining (or losing) 8-10% efficiency doesn't make the top 5 list of things I'd like to improve about my design :-)