gathering robots are pointless

i just don’t understand it at all. all they do is two things, clean animal stalls and harvest crops. both of which take one click at the stall or one click with a logging tool for the crops. sometimes you don’t want to harvest because of gmax or cross pollination. the ONE THING i actually want them for, to pick up all the stuff on the land i haven’t purchased yet, they don’t do. utterly pointless.