No.
Extreme should stay extreme and true to its reputation of being harsh towards the player.
~ @Ace
I think that, in order to maintain it's distinction from towny, extreme must lean towards harshness in the sense that resource management is important.
You don't have to smelt all of the iron you find; you're likely to never use it. Save coal for meaningful smelting and otherwise important progression. It's tempting to smelt a D-chest of iron ore, but it's entirely against the nature of extreme to be frivolous with scarce resources.
Iron should have remained scarce as well, but I digress.
