I think they did "OK" on this.
meadows is sort of a go-to new campsite/home biome. It has berries, which are still useful (dye, muckshake) and boar (casual food when not in plains or mountain).

Dark forest has thistle, which is always useful, and dwarves, which you get more than you want sometimes but its very possible to need or want to farm them for rock/wood/resin trio. Its slower than farming any one of those the usual way, but faster than farming all 3 one at a time, esp resin which goes fast if you use fire arrows on trash or have many lights. You may also explore a cave to get portal cores if you don't have a better source.

swamp has iron, always needed.
mountain has freeze glands and obsidian for arrows, and wolf foods are solid even into the plains. '
As we move on out of the plains to mistland, the tar at least will remain useful for a while I would bet.

each biome has just a little something that is always useful, in other words. Granted you can overfarm anything and not need more for years, but if you don't do that, exploring new sections of weak biomes tops you off and you may just run into that epic build site that inspires you to make something grand.