I should have clarified. By perks I don’t really mean pure stat increases. And you are correct, back in the day from a min/max standpoint Herbs and Mining would have been the worst choices. Stamina and a short heal. Everyone was JC/BSing for that reason. I don’t particularly miss those kind of perks.
What I mean is just having fun stuff you can do out in the world like other professions can do with their questlines. Enchanters can animate dead golems. Tailoring skill putting together cloth somehow translates into weaving the literal fabric of time somehow in BfA. xD
IMO, what would be cool is to let miners dig their way through secret passages out in the world, maybe to find some cool treasure and whatnot. Herbalists could do things like the Carnivorous Lasher in Nazjatar, but exclusive to them. Things like that.