cant say why, a alfa is allways a trade off between leaving things as is, and or change things as it should... i know code wise there been issues with containers, and storage, with items disapering, so leaving the easy access makes or dosent having to fix a alfa that important, as otherwise they could just added bags of holding etc... but your guess is as good as mine...
As for the exclamation marks, that actually requires that people go to the camp, and in many cases actually do a rest as once you innititatie the rest, stuff happens based on or can happen on what we done... some ofthose exclamation marks triggers after or inbetween... and again you wont get them at all if you dont go to the camp...
I think far to many on these forums think a alfa is something final, as i explained up top that unifinshed placeholder mechanics is left, is often due to other missing mechanics, or not yet implemented items, do you think they will keep the issues with storage as well ?