I am haunted by the spirit of efficiency.
This is a problem I've faced in many other games, but having recently dove back in to the The Last Caretaker I am reminded once more of the devil that lives on my shoulder.
I have an intense instinct to scrap anything and everything that is scrapable and "clean" the entire map. This is not practical on some of the larger locations, though I do it anyway for places I visit frequently.
It plagued me so much in Fallout 4 I eventually installed "scrap everything" mods that allowed me to do it all in one swoop instead of manually spending hours cleaning out. Alas, I have found no such mod for The Last Caretaker.
My scrapping journeys have led me to have abundant amounts of Iron and Copper, more than I can realistically use (given the rate of further intake).
I'm trying to convince myself to only go after the valuable recourses I actually need, but that doesn't make the little voice go away.
I feel like Wall-E living in trash world, making tiny little dents into the cleaning up and never making meaningful progress. Perhaps that feeling is intended by the developers. I don't know. I'm too busy scrapping barrels and beams to think much about it.
That's it. That's the vent post.