I agree 9s hot and cold was a lot better, digging in XI was horrendous, you spent a fortune and the skill was hidden and had to use macros to test what skill you were at. Along with the tons of times when zones were all dug up so you got nothing
I honestly think when choco raising is added, this will be added with it, and I'm all for it giving xp to level choco, I just hope they don't make it a tedious past time that very few will do
Like maybe a new chocobo tree seperate from the rest, which at max rank give your chocobo miners barding, botany barding etc