I don't know, for me it's pretending that players are handicapped and can't connect the fact that food respawns.
It probably depends on how you play, but when you pick up everything as it goes, you fill your inventory quite quickly, then you have options to either go to the trader right away or distribute the weight to different characters.
Usually going to the merchant is just faster.
Something like this is definitely not half as annoying as a PoE1 system.
