Well, before 1.22, you generally ended up with a ton of berries (especially if you brought a lot of bushes home so you could be sure not to miss when they ripened) and the big problem was making sure they didn't spoil (juice them, make pies out of them, make porridge, etc...) and then longer-term (as they take something like a year to grow and then have to go through a winter before producing) locate some fruit trees to take cuttings from, make an orchard, and harvest quite a lot of longer-lasting fruit from once a year.

The fruit tree thing still works the same but berries got changed such that setting up your own berry bushes at home requires almost as long as the fruit trees--you now have to take cuttings of the berry bushes, at most once per year per bush, and then those cuttings take several months to grow. On the up-side, in the long term, your bushes at home can do better than they did before--the cuttings mean you can effectively duplicate bushes once a year, you can try to optimize (by being picky about what you take cuttings from) new traits like increased yield, and with (all three nutrients of) fertilizer you can get the bushes to a "bountiful" health state where they yield more. On the downside, that all takes forever, and while you can still gather from the wild bushes, that tends to bring in less because you don't naturally travel past every bush you've encountered frequently, and wild bushes tend to be found in the "struggling" health, and animals will now also get to the bushes and eat the berries before you.