As someone who didn't know this was an option, I simply voted for it to break even unless you find pickles in the wild so that it introduces meaningful gameplay into the loop, rather than running to bandit with 500 scrap and buying all the pickles the poor bandit managed to find!
I don't think making it take longer is a true solution because in my years of playing MMO's and other similar games, if there is something that works, but is inconvenient, players will just find a way to make it convenient by making a larger farm for it.
