Hahaha gotta love the Power of the Post!
I hope S8 has multi value packs again at the end of this event (where there's the more expensive pack with finished items, and the $4.99 USD with 15 mins of unlimited energy). I think energy to chop gnomes will be my bottleneck, especially since I now want to collect from items that will give me more trades in the Exchange! I tried to get to the Angriest Gnome Goal before the initial pack expired, but no luck.
I sooooo agree with our Japanese fashionista ShibuyaCloth; it's beginning to get monotonous doing nothing but chop, chop, chop. I have my fingers crossed that Jonas the sea witchs' snake drops sea type things (coral, shell, etc).