It gets worse on other items like seeds. If they even spawn you can gather 1. You cannot use abilities to increase your yield or force them to pop, unless I am missing something. And once you gather the 1 seed, it disappears from the list. Even sending retainers is pointless because I believe they can only bring them back 1 at a time. How they decide which items to add scarcity to makes zero sense.

I am a lvl 80 fully decked out botanist and it took me nearly an hour of running in a circle to get 6 grape seeds from a lvl 15 node to make a couple pieces of furniture, yeah, after you hit a certain level it just becomes silly.