Knife attacking dead animals more than 3+ times each for all materials feels tedious and bad

Knife attacking a dead body more than two/three times becomes tedious fast.

Especially when killing an aggressive herd of animals - attempting to harvest the pile of dead bodies feels bad.

Unless the intention is that players are meant to ignore prey/predator animals and only harvest Fabled animals?

But at end game, some Fabled animals need to be attacked 6+ times to get all items, which is even more tedious...