If they improved inventory management, I think the new system would be just fine and players who gripe about it would stop. The issue isn't the new food mechanic system but inventory management being clunky.
Think about it. If you could click a button that says, Send All Camp Supplies to Camp and boom, you're done, then no hassel. So what's left to complain about.
They could even just have all such items auto-sent to camp. Basic restrictions could be if the characters are in certain hostile areas, food doesn't auto port to camp, but as soon as you exit it does. Whatever. The point is, they could and should tweak the new system in terms of better, easier item management, not get rid of the system.
I also think food should be needed for short rests too, thus making it strategic to decide how much food to keep on you versus camp, but again ONLY if item management was easier and I was able to multi-select items and send or withdraw from camp easily. But that's a very minor suggestion regardless.
