This has come up before, so I don't know that mentioning it again with make it any more likely to happen, but...
I would LOVE to see customizable conditional orders (similar to how we have order templates). This would hugely increase the amount of automation available, but still make it feel like you're engaged in that automation because you have to create your own custom automation, if that makes sense. I understand that fully customizable standing orders is a big ask, as there's a lot of programming and debugging. Would it be possible to just get customization for standing orders that already exist and have numeric values?
As an example of why this is useful, in early game I usually have two survey ships in Sol that have a conditional order to return to refuel when they hit 50% fuel. Given that conditional order, you'd think they should never run out, because they spend half their fuel, then they come home. Except that someone moved home base, i.e. Earth moved on its orbit, and how it takes more than 50% of their fuel to get home, so they routinely run out of fuel. I can't fix this (other than tediously keeping an eye on them), because the conditional orders are all for 50% or LESS in the fuel take, i.e. 40%, 30%, etc. What I need is 60%, or maybe 70%. If the conditional orders were customizable, I could set that ot what ever number works for that particular system/area/situation.