Due to how long it takes for a player to progress from a small tent to being able to build a complete house, it would be nice to add a sort of "middlepoint", like a large tent which you could enter and place some furniture inside, like a countertop, the camping stove, a futon and other cooking materials.
For example, my game is about 24 hours in and I just barely managed to remove the tent and put a futon inside the tea house (thanks to the recent update making it much more simple to build a futon, otherwise, I would still be camping in the tent because I have yet to be able to build a barn and obtain wool), but I cannot place any cooking furniture due to the space restrictions of the tea house. In the same tea house, I also needed to make space for at least a dog to help protect my chickens.
As a result, I have not yet once cooked in the entire game, because some cooking wares need to be placed inside (at least that is strongly implied by the game). I am still purchasing food from vendors, 24h into the game.
If there was something like a large tent that you could get the blueprint for early, with some easy to obtain ressources from mining or purchasing, I would have been a lot more inclined to do other activities such as cooking. Instead, I'm still waiting for my house to be built and I just finally obtained the blueprints that appear to be worth building (I'm going straight to a larger house due to how time consuming gathering materials for anything is and I want to ensure my time is spent building things that I really want rather than use smaller builds and updating them.