What do you do with your workers when...

[Funak]

I don't know why do you need to bother with pre-chopping as AI doesn't seem to spam archaeologists the moment they get available.
Forests aren't that weak, but I tend to chop all of them in the radius of specialist cities in favour of mines and farms. Honestly, that forge/workshop change was uncalled for.

To be perfectly fair, even before the forge/workshop change, forests just stopped being interesting around medieval/renaissance era. Now however they stop being interesting by the time you can start chopping them (yay timing )