Disagree. Valheim is one of the few games that have a good balance in resource gathering rates and expenditure and has pretty obvious ways to optimize it. Just because some few players can find it "tedious" doesn't make it a game problem.

I had a blast playing with two friends, where one focused on hunting and food, another on wood and building (me), and third on mining and equipment. Apart from that, I simply see it as part of the game to harvest things that I need even when solo, and its hard to imagine for me what I would spent the time on if I could automate that like you're suggesting.