Is it better for an element to be more abundant or less abundant?

I believe it's better for it to be more abundant because it's better to have more then less. Take water as an example. Water is an important factor to our survival and if we didn't have enough of that we would be in trouble.  Or if we needed food but there wasn't enough more people would be dying from starvation. It's better to have a little more than a little less.