The sf food is part of 3 systems that induces nation to develop their economy:
1. Movecrafts. Don't need an explanation
2. Runes and pots. Need a system of production and supplies to be able to supply an entire army (sure 1 player can get what he needs if he grinds for 1 siege, but for an entire army it will take up alot of resources/money
3. Custom food. Like runes and pots this takes alot of time to grow in mass amounts and craft into useful food, and the money it would take to simply buy it

Add to this more micro mechanics like horses, siege treasury and netherite and you need a big economy to run conisistant sieges

So all in all custom food does what it need to do game wise, a nerf to it would change the meta quite a lot. An alternative I would suggest is simply making more diversity in custom foods that are fit for sieges. In idea like another food that gives you and auro that nullify health boost in exchange of not having health boost yourself, or a food that gives you weakness effect on you attacks.

I do not think its correct to use opinions of people who see balance as in just fair 1v1 duels. First people complain guns do too much damage then now they complain that they take no damage once the guns are nerfed. If you live too much with the new food then it is a good time to revert guns to how they used to be before so people take more damage. Or is your opinion just one sided on this 90% of the damage you take should be from swords alone?

As said above the crop update provided meaning and usage for agriculture that was fully useless. One step closer to actually having a real gameplay in infrastructure of nations

Though however on some parts I can agree that it may need a slight edit in terms of maybe duration of the buffs just so food becomes "nice bonus to have" rather than each 1 food being stronger than a full buff potion. For reference eating intervals can be anywhere from the minimum of ~10ish seconds to maybe 30 seconds if you delay it. Its an overkill to have buffs last 1:30

"First people complain guns do too much damage then now they complain that they take no damage once the guns are nerfed."

Correction, people complain now once many things get nerfed in damage, such as guns, ifvs, cannons, planes and so on.

And its not like any of us has the "correct opinion" on whats balanced and whats not. As said above, most people have only opinion on what seems fair in a 1v1 duel scenario given that most of their experience comes from just that in practice servers. From what I know, there is not a single server that actually has real teamfights other than chaotic clashes of just mas people hitting eachother without thinking much. This comes from my own point of view since I mostly played mmorpgs where the teamfights are highly organized in terms of fighting so I know that minecraft team fights come nothing close to 1v1 practice pvp or ffa

This is justblokans tryna turn the server to loka again already happened with saharas spam suggestion we know our lesson now just cope and learn with the server mechanics the new food is hard to produce and its something comming out of the agriculture update wich itself brings ccnet closer to having more things to play than just grind for sieges and mindlessly building forts there is also the fact that a lot of things are connected say sf food means guns do more dammage if we keep going with theese suggestions the server will be 90%swprdpvp 5%movecraft and5%gun while adding no value to playing besides sieges