Gathering proficiency logic is backwards

Potato Basket

Can cut huge tree right away but need to be more proficient with advanced gathering skill to harvest young small twig tree?

If anything it should be the opposite, at first you should't be able to cut the big grown trees, start with small young trees to advance to the bigger ones etc..

This way the game also benefit from the wider scope effect as you're also immediately exposed to resources you're yet able to harvest but only their smaller version and as you progress the actual amount you collect also grows together with the physical visual representation of such resource

bigger = slower harder but more
smaller = faster easier but less

just my 2 cents

Strevi

The logic is ok. Steven who makes the game is the forester and doesn't allow inexperienced wood cutters cut young trees, because he care
But for someone who was cutting trees in New World, the system is indeed the other way around. I'd say Amazon doesn't care about the rain forest!