Other familiars speed up collection: skipping the fishing minigame, skipping the long mining animations, etc.

Collecting "with Gale" saves no time at all because I still have to go to the resource and wait just as long. I understand if you don't want to introduce an animated auto-collect at this stage, given the risks of path-finding and snagging, but Gale could be temporarily replaced by a 2D animation of just an energy line to represent a "zip" of movement, him briefly appearing next to the collectable resource, and then zipping back to Mel to deliver it (before returning the Gale model to the scene).

This would make Gale's second talent actually feel useful.