Now that we can explicitly craft explosives to take out our enemies, would it be feasible to have a craftable explosive which we can use for harvesting?
It would be a tradeoff from doing it by hand, especially with the increased yield from Oberon's Bounty, but sometimes farming stone is especially tedious since the best possible yield for Sandstone is six. The ability to drop a satchel of explosives and let them break the nodes rather than individually mining is both thematically appropriate to the time period, to the observed dynamics of factions like the NTTC with the faewilds, and furthers some of the implied narrative of humanity being out to take and use without regard.
For balance, it could carry a risk of provoking attack from wildlife or some kind of fae/Bound incursion in response to being especially disruptive, much like the drill devices in Defend POIs.