I didn’t have a mountain of coin and I didn’t have it easy. So all of a sudden because I have put dozens of days into building my farm, you get to say what is fair??
Hard pass.
Nothing is stopping you currently from enjoying your small farm.
I have worked hard for my farm and spent days building it. I dont want it to be diminished just because you want a small farm.
Edit: I’m gonna step away now. Getting too upset over this. This would be overly painful and unneeded.
Not trying to punish you for your success! I’m sorry if I’m upsetting you. Believe me, I’m not trying to argue with you, I’m playing devil’s advocate with my self. I really appreciate your feedback and input.
I’m curious how you feel this would be punishing to you, exactly, and if that could be assuaged by forgiving windows on the wither timer. I’m obviously not opposed to this, so I’m curious to see what, if anything could change your mind 
Say for example: If your plants are only going to wither if left untouched for a month, do you think that is still unfair? Is there any period of time that would be acceptable?
I am not upset, it just appears that in order for you to succeed you want to take away from others rather than complete on the same playing field like we all had to when we started.
To be honest nothing. I do not want to have to do more to use the crop plants for decoration. Why should I?
I do not want to have to schedule when I need to harvest each crop in order to avoid it withering. If I am not crafting certain things or none of my friends need it, then right now I can let it sit until we do. If you change it then I have to harvest it or I loose the crop and seeds and everything I worked for. .Just so a small farmer can compete? which I am not entirely convinced is true anyway. Way to many new players have come into the game and been able to build up farms in a reasonable timeframe for me to believe that a change is necessary.