These mush DIYs are so far the most grindy ones I've seen since the cherry blossom DIYs. At least we have more time to collect them though. The fact that we only had 10 days for the cherry blossom stuff (and for us in Northern Hemisphere it was simultaneous with annoying Bunny Day stuff) is going to make the grindyness of that hard to surpass.
Ain't no shame in that. I had to do that with the Mushroom diy because of covid work hours. It's exhausting and I really don't want to use what little time I do have hunting balloons.I kind of cheated and just bought majority of them, since I know I wouldn't have the time to hunt them down for hours ^^;; though I was able to get the remaining I needed through the balloons that spawned while I was terraforming. I think doing a task while hunting them down definitely makes it easier.