What annoys me is that in Macross they pretty much stated that the factory had so many malfunctions that it would take a lot of time for them to get it functioning properly.
From the end of Macross being, we have barely enough resources to keep us alive, it went to we have more than enough to finish building a new ship, rebuilding the Macross, building a serie of new VFs to acompany the Megaroad and give the colony fleet resources for there travel.