Maybe when you had to select a region that grew crops or herbs. But now we can grow both.
And why should seed making for one type be so much more difficult than the other? Esp if one day produce vendors go away as has been speculated. At that point the more difficult crop seed making will be unbearable.
You may think that. Not everyone does. I know i don't think it is that easy. Shucking is a far easier and nicer way to get seeds. It is time to make crop and herb seeds gettable the same way. Plops should become a different kind of guano.
I almost never buy seeds from a vendor these days, unless I'm starting a new vegetable from scratch. But, examining the piggy plops is getting just a little old. But, then, many things are getting a little old, and it may be time for me to change up my activities.
Just let us shuck for crop seeds. So much simpler. This plop business was cute at first, but it just old and tired now.
On one hand, you feed the pig (once you get one selected), find the plop (often you have to move over to it), examine the plop (auto examine? you still have to select the plop which is still part of the problem), find the seeds, pick up the seed....
Contrast it with just shucking the seeds from the crops in your inventory. Also grabbing a moving pig on a slow computer or internet connection isn't always as easy as it sounds.
Please, just simplify it. Let us shuck seeds.
And to make some people happy, the ones who don't seem to want this to be less complicated, make it a card then. The crop seed shucking card. Then if someone is that in love with getting them from plops they don't have to buy the card.
In the mean while, you can save a little trouble by picking up the plops first and examining them after they are in your bags. At least you're not hunting for seed packets on the ground then.