I agree. At the least, increase pet gathering to lvl 80, and bring back the old item shop pet tools that gave a higher percentage of the mats and a lower percentage of the white crap, and could be stacked to 999. Those two things would make pet gathering a lot more useful.
If you improve planting as well so that we get a bigger harvest it would be more useful. As it is, we have to wait a full 24 hours to get a harvest, and the result is random. Some days I don't get any of the items I need. It would be nice if we could specify the mat we get.