Cost was never an issue. Most of these things made a laughably small dent in my supply, even for Bile. One exception would be Argon, since you would need to get three in one day before they start decaying to feed it that, which isn't likely outside of deliberately farming them (and as I understood it, Helminth was always meant as a way to sink our excess resources, not a new source of farming).
The issue with Bile was that you had so few options you were forced to feed it the same few things repeatedly until it hated them, and among the only options were some of the only resources you a