The golem is great. People just had unrealistic expectations. They expected to just be able to drop the golem in their gigantic storage rooms and he's instantly sort everything.

You need to think of the golem as another redstone tool. It is not magic, it won't do everything for you, you need to guide the tool and optimize around it.

Let me write a guide.
>when empty handed, the golem will search for the nearest copper chest until it finds one with items inside
>it will remember visited copper chests up to 10, after the 10th his memory is wiped, he wanders a few blocks and restarts the search
>when he finds a copper chest with items, he starts visiting the nearest normal chests

Now please pay attention, this is what most people get wrong:
>if the golem finds EITHER an empty chest OR a chest with the same type of item, it will deposit the held item
>this means if he comes across an empty chest BEFORE he finds the "right chest", he will dump the item there, meaning you can't have empty chests before the intended chests
>if the chest does not fit that criteria, he will search for another, keeping a memory of up to 10 chests
>after searching 10 chests he loses memory, wanders and restarts the search

This is how he works in a nutshell.

Almost hitting character limit. Next post I will explain how to make him work.