Sadly this is one of the core issues of the first game, they did not seem to bother improving. They even more made it worth, because you need to split your social skills on four characters, which makes it even more tedious: 1 to lock pick, 1 to loot, 1 to identify and the last to sell the unneeded stuff. So in the worst case to have to 'move' stuff two times between characters (find a locked chest with something to indentify in it).
