I agree. As a hobbyist woodworker and boat builder, I do everything with ordinary untreated construction lumber and plywood, reclaimed untreated lumber and plywood, and what I can get from people taking out trees.
Don’t get me wrong. I love the look of tropical hardwoods, but I don’t see how to justify their use at scale. And with however many billion people we have today, there is no such thing as small scale.