Money. Playing D&D I have never had to fill packs with trash to sell. Money is so tight in the game that we have to fill our packs with plates, cups, jugs, garbage and run back to sell it then run back to where we are adventuring. This takes me out of the immersion really quickly. It takes time, it's boring and repetitive. Nothing is better than finding good loot, but no one wants to keep filling the bags to sell junk. That is very video game and less D&D.
Idk if things have changed in recent patch, but I'll just leave this here
https://forums.larian.com/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=758912&page=1 - This is an old thread, sure, but I haven't seen/read about significant updates to the loot in BG3 EA since then. I got ~20,000gp in my most recent playthrough (gp + selling
valuable items I didn't need) without picking up much junk.
If you want to buy literally every magic item merchants have to offer, sure you'll probably need to collect and sell all the cups+etc. But there's more than enough gp laying around in gold coins and valuable items to "properly" outfit a level 4 party with a magic item or two each. 5e isn't Pathfinder, where the game is ~balanced around everyone having a full assortment of +1 magic items at early levels and +5 to +6 magic items at late game.
I agree that there is too much trash loot in the game and Larian should remove a lot of it. But that's more an annoyance problem - opening up a chest to find a fork and a plate is just not fun - than a money problem imo.
