And that's the point as to why food makes a poor limiting agent for resting.
Since you brought up Solasta, that game has hit dice which limit short rest somewhat, and it works well. Even though you can short rest as much as you want, and classes like fighter get special abilities back even if they don't use Hit Dice, it doesn't matter. You don't usually spam SR because you encounter a long rest area frequently enough that you don't need to spam SR. Likewise, you don't need to spam LR because they're well-placed.
In around 40 hours of Solasta, I've used one SR. I'm so off of using it that I didn't even recover Arcane abilities. I don't know how many LRs I had, for sure, since they're mostly done during map travel, and require food, in one form or another, whether that's Goodberry, or rations, or hunting during travel. I don't know how map travel is going to work, going from one area to another overland here. But what is it about SRs that's bothering you so much that you feel like you can't just play it out the way you want, instead of changing the game to suit you? Is it that it actually has a limiting factor on it, and you'd prefer that to be removed?
