Food Crafting seems imbalanced (time vs value)

[AylaYukihana]

Increasing the food buffs and increasing difficulty of content to match provides no net benefit to buffing the food, except you see bigger numbers.

Er, the net benefit is food is not just desirable, its needed. Even for weaker dungeons, it goes from the current "nice to have" to "wow thats good!".. overall much higher demand for food items, more crafting by cooks, more buying of mats by botanists and fishermen.. its an overall economic boost.