Couple of nuanced aspects to monuments that address that issue. For starters, the fact that they functionally remove a building in each kingdom at the start of the game and that they're the only way to stop wasteland tokens from coming out, makes them a priority. I think most folks will have a very hard time winning a game without building at least one. And the method of getting offerings isn't a matter of just dropping some resources. Usually it's about slight tweaks to an action to generate one rather than doing something completely different. It's about prioritizing which monuments are most crucial combined with how reasonable they will be to build.
Couple of nuanced aspects to monuments that address that issue. For starters, the fact that they functionally remove a building in each kingdom at the start of the game and that they're the only way to stop wasteland tokens from coming out, makes them a priority. I think most folks will have a very hard time winning a game without building at least one. And the method of getting offerings isn't a matter of just dropping some resources. Usually it's about slight tweaks to an action to generate one rather than doing something completely different. It's about prioritizing which monuments are most crucial combined with how reasonable they will be to build.