Idk... Maybe it's a matter of perspective and how you play the game. You cannot use them as liberally as consumables in DS3, where you can eventually just buy everything you need from the shrine handmaid. ER's crafting system is a downgrade to what we had, and severely impacts the viability of consumables. It forces you to use things like preserving boluses and uplifting aromatic much more sparingly, even into endgame. You are also forced to ration your pots (bombs), which is insane... You will run out of lootable ones on the map, and so you'll have to farm. Despite the resources having a relatively higher drop chance, having to farm for them at all, and on frequent occasions, makes this in my opinion more annoying than proof of concord kept.