On launch day myself and others were receiving first time craft bonus experience for gathering brand new herb / mining nodes.
Reset 1 - I noticed that newly discovered nodes were not granting me experience on any toon. This is hard to test because by nature first time craft bonuses are one time only. Friends reported they were still receiving, but of all the different combinations I only received a single first time craft bonus on hardened serevite nodes.
Up to Reset 2 - Multiple alts tested, none receive first time bonus except on hardened Servite first time gather. I wonder if first time bonus for gather was never really intended, did not think much of it. I considered there is possibly an element of RNG but multiple toons received it only for hardened serevite.
12/06 Hotfix - I received a first time mining bonus on Serevite node, as expected. However the next 3 hardened serevite also granted first time craft bonus. This is new behavior and it does not look intentional.
It is still not clear to me whether first time experience was ever intended for gatherers, my experience does not appear to be shared by others.