Originally posted by Khalysto:

But they mitigate this with stamina potions, which is part of what I commented on earlier. Why is this insufficient? Is the cool down timer on the stam pots too long? Would that fix it? I'm focused on looking for was small adjustments can achieve a similar goal.

You don't get the lingering stamina mead until (current) endgame, but the problem starts much earlier, at least in mountains. There's also the downside of inventory space and the crafting time, etc.

The game is still early access. I prefer fixing the underlying problems rather than implementing workarounds that wouldn't be required if the underlying problems were fixed.

The disparity between stamina regen and health regen seem like an obvious issue that should be fixed, and I think it causes most of the complains about stamina because people don't fully understand the issue and wonder why, when they have 300 stamina, they have to wait for half an hour to get their stamina back. They eat the best food in the game, and they're stuck at 0 stamina and it feels like they just ate cooked deer.