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Honey Bottles brewed to make Potion of Health Boost

I have been playing 1.15 snapshots, and I've realised there really isn't that much that honey actually DOES in survival. Yes, the Honey Block is VERY useful in redstone contraptions, but for the average survival player, there really isn't much incentive to farm bees.

Firstly, I had to travel 1000 blocks to even find a nest. I had to wait for the bees to come out so I could put them in love mode and breed them. Then I had to wait several minutes for them to grow up, so I could use more flowers to breed more bees. After a long while, the nest was FINALLY full enough for me to get honey. This required a campfire in order not to anger the bees. And in the end... what was it all for?

A not great food source that doesn't even stack to 64...

Why would I ever want to make a bee farm to mass-obtain honey bottles, which only stack to 16, when I could be farming beef or pork, a far superior food source that stacks to 64. Unless I'm going to build my house out of honeycomb blocks, which is unlikely.

So why not give this an extra use? A honey bottle can be brewed into a Potion of Health Boost! As it is powerful, its effect should be rather short-lived. Say, 45 seconds. If its "longer effect" is 8/3 the base effect time, its longer counterpart would be 2 minutes. Like most potions, glowstone can be used to make Health Boost II potion but burns out twice as fast.

This would give incentive for survival players to farm and breed bees, and make honey items actually useful for the survival player.

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    you may be thinking that honey isn't a useful food since it's supposed to fill up saturation (in other words, increase health regen) more than it fills up hunger, but I do still agree that honey should make health boost potions. Perhaps netherwart brewed into honey could give you an awkward honey, and from there a glistering melon is used to make health boost potions.

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    Maybe brewing netherwart into honey bottles? and instead of health boost, the effect should be absorbtion, because health boost is too op and absorbtion 4 might be a good idea.

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    At least make make honey bottles less of a worthless food source. Even cooked cod is a more effective food in terms of saturation. 
    I see some confusion around the internet about their viability as a food source. I just want to clear something up: Originally honey was equivalent to cooked salmon restoring 6 hunger points (points, NOT bars) and 9.6 saturation (saturation will indirectly effect how much your health can regen but is NOT a health regen stat). That would have been a very nice food source. With honey bottles saturation nerfed to a measly 2.4 they are now a fairly worthless food source more in line with apples or chorus fruit.
    Buff saturation back to 9.6 and I will start farming and carrying honey bottles. Also, for me, the poison nullification effect isn't enough to justify a precious inventory slot. Make it cure the wither effect. Or maybe instead of just curing poison (or wither?) it could also give resistance? I really like the health boost idea in the suggestion. Maybe it would be similar to the absorption effect from golden/notch apples? Honey bottles have a lot of potential as a food source but are largely untapped as of now. Let's do something about that!