Island Sanctuary: Rest Cycles? Why?

[Valfreyja]

I'm happy with the content. The Island is gorgeous. It has a lot of potential.

I've got the fountain. I have everything maxed. Perfect crop layout, great selection of animals including most of the variants/rares. It's all automated. I've got a spreadsheet that tells me daily what to focus in my workshop for upcoming cycles, which takes all of 10 minutes or so. Leaving me time to enjoy the peaceful side of the Island.

With updates coming in 6.3 and again in 6.4/6.5, and rumors I've heard of datamined stuff, I'm having no problems with the Island at all.

Give us more resource types.
Give us an underground area for more exploration.
More underwater areas.
More "cabins" to build on the Island and expand where we can relax.
More creatures to capture and work with.
More landmarks to play around with.

The Island is cake. And anything we get beyond what is available now is just icing.

That doesn't make it "good", just look at pvp and how long it was openly mocked and ridiculed. Just because it has some time gates reward doesn't justify it being objectively bad, nor does it make it "good". And liking objectively bad content doesn't make it "good" either.

What rewards are time-gated? Nothing ever goes away. You get them as fast or as slow as you desire. Why any would call them that seems kinda silly.

It's like saying PvP rewards are time-gated because you have to take the time to earn Trophy Crystals or Wolf Marks.
Tomestone gear is time-gated because you have to take time to earn Tomestones to get them.

I mean, realistically, everything in the game is time-gated. Because you have to spend some time in getting any of it.

Rest Cycles aren't time gating. The Workshop values are designed around a 5 day week.

Realistically, if the Rest Cycles were removed, the values would all be decreased to fit into a 7 day week instead. They wouldn't remain what they are now. The bonus % values on Supply and Popularity would be decreased, in addition to Groove and workshop values.