Worthless chests inflate the whole concept of a treasure chest. You should be excited to find one! People use lockable chests to store valuables in them, not for decoration or keeping 14 coins and an ink bottle.
And the vast amount of empty containers and trash loot is driving me crazy in BG3. The original games had a lot of non-clickable containers and that works well.
+1
Finding a locked chest, cracking it open, just to find the 14 gold coins and some cheap vendor trash which isn't worth the hassle of even clicking on it multiple times is actually a no-go when it comes to system design.
