Am I the only one who hates the timebending skill??

I have the timebending skill assigned to three characters and woooooooooo boy do I hate it. I'm trying to get Sully to level 10 and it's taking forever with timebending.

My biggest grip with this skill is that it seems to only have an effect on friendship if you're literally just using your hourglass to find things around biomes? But then if you encounter one of those timed mists, it doesn't count towards the friendship with the character? Or if you use it on the swirling sands, it also doesn't seem to count?

I also feel like the characters give bonus/extra items way less with timebending than with any other skill? I feel like with fishing or mining for example they give an extra item every other time. With timebending, I feel like Sully hardly ever gives me an extra item? So it also doesn't feel like a bonus at all to have this skill assigned to a character and have them follow you around??

Honestly wish we could use those manuals to change assigned skills earlier than level 10 because holy crap am I tired of this 😅