one of the things I do like about the new farming is that it seems more immersive. your crops are valuable and can be damage by zombie's, in A19 if a spitter spat on your crops they would turn to seeds, now you would lose the harvest.
so now when making your garden there needs to be thought and effort made to protect and defend your crops, which I think is really neat. and with the A20 shape menu you overhaul you should be able to make some kind of janky structure resembling a greenhouse
and yes, I can get on board with the idea of getting experiencing for planting seeds because alot of other things you interact with in the world also give exp. so it doesn't make sense that planting seeds gives none.
on a side note, I think living off the land could be spruced up a bit, no pun intended. something like a 50 percent chance to make an extra farm plot instead of just 1, or maybe even a 5 or 10% chance to craft 2 seeds instead of one, or maybe even a small reduction in time for plants to mature. Just something to make it not feel entirely worthless or wasteful, but also something that doesn't tinker with the yield yet improves farming a bit.
What if LoTL 2 increased the exp you got from farming?
Just throwing random ideas, but I do think LoTL rank 2 could use a bit of love