I don't care about other players
Clearly. The feeling is mutual.
we are talking about game design rules. If the game wants you to do inventory management, you HAVE to do inventory management. You simply can't ask for a change in design and game rules just because you like to collect useless stuff.
Why not? Just the witcher gear sets push way past the available encumbrance. There are a few times we're given a special item from someone who claims it's been in the family for generations as a reward; feels pretty tacky to vendor it for a handful of gold. Ideally, I should be able to store it at Kaer Morhen to trot out the next winter while telling stories from the path and slugging White Gull with the lads.
The first two games had inventory management and storage with Innkeepers. It's a feature left out of the release probably for no other reason than to fill out the 16 free dlc program. It's either a glaring oversight, or deliberate.
I don't HAVE to do anything, I play on a PC, I tired of the silly inventory mini-game pretty quickly and changed my limit to 500lbs until the standard storage feature of the previous two games gets deployed either next week or the week after.
Do you like to collect items? Well, it's your problem. There is an inventory management, deal with it.
It's dealt with on my end...In a few weeks it'll be dealt with from CDPR's end as well.
Basically, your argument is: They made it this way, therefore its preserved in amber and shouldn't be changed no matter how inconvenient of different from previous games.
Mine/ours is: The way it's made is dumb, and is a departure from previous games, so it should be fixed/changed.