A good start would be to have fewer containers to begin with. On top of that, making immediately evident with both the highlight function and/or the mouse cursor which one are empty even BEFORE the inspection would help a lot to not hate the environment.
P.S. Just to be clear, filling them with items wouldn't make things any better. Maybe the opposite.
Agree with fewer containers. Also, we should be looting a group of them, not separately. I don't think the highlight should tell us if there is loot though, that makes it too easy.
