It wouldn't be bad if it was something you'd find abundantly along the way and had many applications. But they are too rare (in my opinion) to justify the schlep to get them, too scarce in recipes to bother farming tons at a time, and too middling in preformance to rely heavily on.

Compare to the humble raspberry which gets used in a lot of things and you're incentivised to hoard them not just for low tier food or Mead but also boar food.