If I'm changing how far away chunks are loaded around players I'm just moving the problem into another zone, that wouldn't be a good solution to the problem. Increasing it increases lag, reducing it reduces how far we can see, we don't really want either, even though ofc it's possible that 10 isn't the ideal setting. Considering it affects the game constantly for everyone I also think that's a bit invasive in order to fix one factory.
Tl;dr I don't think changing the view distance would be a good solution, but thanks for the idea.