I mean, 1.5m is a ton of money, but that's not insane to me for a company with over 9,000 stores
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I've replaced a lot of my social media time with puzzles. When I have a minute to stop and look at my phone instead of reddit and Facebook I go through wordle, NYTimes crossword mini then Washington Post daily crossword. It usually takes about half an hour to get through those, I don't really need to be looking at my phone idly for much longer than that in a day
The exchange of heat is proportional to the temperature difference. It will always take more energy to keep that gap wider between inside and out. The most energy efficient thing you can do is to deal with the outside temp as much as you can bear it and keep that inside/outside differential as low as possible
Not sure how cold it gets where you are and how much heat you're adding in, but I'm guessing the reason for the mesh instead of fascia is to give some ventilation to the roof
Honestly it probably doesn't matter if you close it up, sacrifice a little rot and ice buildup for your comfort, you said yourself this is just some barn structure, you're not going to wreck it overnight
I'm in Canada, up here we like ventilation in our attic spaces to take away the condensation as warm humid air from inside cools where it meets cold outside air, so you'd normally want a vented soffit with a nice air path leading out the top of your roof, minimizes ice buildup.
For this, you have vaulted ceilings and it looks like basically no space for insulation+ventilation between the inside ceilings and the roof deck, so without knowing your climate or how things are built there I'm betting they saw moisture building up in that eave and removed the fascia to let it breathe
Close it up if you want, I wouldn't bother foaming it, and if you notice things are too wet just take the boards off. Again, you won't wreck it overnight.