What's annoying that if auto-production stops due to insufficient resources the building switches back to no auto-production. It would be nice if the game remembers auto-production, and if I order a building to produce units again I do not have to enable auto-production again.

yes,and I like it as well. gng, do NOT remove this

Seconded. Otherwise, why even play the game if you want everything to be automated for you?

As can be seen, they can build a Palace and Pillar of Ashoka is grayed out. I've constructed a Palace, but it can only research Spes.

Hey, this is intended, so that there remains some attention needed to maintain your economy. Furthermore, putting more actions into maintaining your economy should reward you with a better economy. it may be still be changed, of course. If one considers this a bug, my preference would be is to remove it from the game.