I don't have season's yet, so am not bothered by the weatherproofing. I hope they fix this before I get seasons though. However, the sunflower and planting station are useful. I have just harvested plants less than 48 sim hours after planting. Talking to the plants gets them to grow and become harvestable extremely quickly. I hadn't worked out the value of the sunflower, but, now I know, growing should be a breeze. Being able to identify seeds is also a great feature, no more planting rows and rows of seeds in the hope that one will be a life plant. Those little globes of sunshine are great if you cash them in early in the game, they yield far more than money trees and are productive from day one.