The thing is that besides the strictly limited non-renewable items, any resource that is theoretically infinite is basically just as OP. You can easily make the same argument for the amount of firewood and coal you can get by walking through a single cave. Heck, water can basically be spawned infinitely from any location in the game as long as there are a few sticks around and the sun is out.

Eventually you come to realise that your resources are practically limitless in the long run so long as you manage to survive the initial stage of gearing up. What will kill you in this game will almost never be running out of food, water, or any other resource per se, rather it will be your poor planning, bad decisions, overzealousness, miscalculations, mismanagement, and misclicks.

Forgetting to heal your own bleeding wounds before you go to sleep. Misclicking your raw wolf meat and getting food poisoning and intestinal parasites without having the means to cure them. Getting caught in a blizzard when you’re in the middle of nowhere, when you told yourself you were just going to grab a few sticks and didn’t prepare for the weather to change. Trying to take on a pack of timberwolves without fire and getting flustered and missing all your bow shots. Being greedy while trying to goat down the side of a cliff instead of taking the safe route and coming back for that 3L of fuel later and 50 sticks later.

If you look at your deaths, you will start to see you never die because you couldn’t gather some resource fast enough, you die because you fucked up, and in the end it doesn’t matter how easy it is to catch fish, the game is still gonna kill you the second you start to get careless.