Every single thing in the game is a few seconds of your time. It’s the cumulative effect that ‘matters’ to a dev.
Aside from that, I think the real issue is twofold:
- it bothers a lot of people -
- we don’t know if they’re neglecting an ‘easy’ fix or if they deliberately want (for example) equipment to be stared at for as long as possible.
There’ve been a lot of QoL changes implemented which save the player a “few seconds”. Even the auto-stash feature potentially saves us the “few seconds” it takes to run to the loot in the first place, for example. Various changes to drop rates seem to cut against the “stare at loot” time sink, for example. So they know such problems exist, and they keep tweaking stuff… they’re just very slow at it.
Once a few real UI devs are fully onboarded, we might reap dividends. The change can be as simple as a single button/checkbox somewhere in the stash itself: “don’t deliver equipment”.