Well it's true that chests are bad but I for one am thankful. Chest loot in this game, like many survival crafting games, becomes pretty worthless early on, iron from swamp crypts being the one exception. You need a few thousand gold to get some quality of life items from the trader then it becomes less useful than Gray Dwarf Eyes. Playing, as I do, with a packrat if there were more loot that would just mean more worthless junk to hump out of dungeons and back to base to fill up chests to no good purpose.

Again this is pretty typical for the survival crafting game type. You have limited capacity to carry stuff and they delight in making you choose between something that we have been taught to value, like gold or money, and something you actually need, like ammo or food when filling it.