To Elessaria666, you're not the only one.

I think the over-abundant empty containers are, ultimately (though indirectly) bad for immersion. What is gained by the presence of shelves (say) and the ability to search them is lost when our behaviour is so ridiculously artificial.

On the amount on loot, I'm rather in favour of less loot (of magical and non-magical and total clutter types). Firesnakearies had a loot survey once, if anybody is interested in looking at what can be found.