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I remember people stacking armadillo to get like 5k armor or something bullshit like that. I believe dev regretted the crafting system, and that shouldn't have been a thing in the game but they couldn't come up with something better and more complex in time, like that concept art for rifle variations.
>They needed some reason for players to where items based on fit over function
Best decision they made even if the vanilla system is super shallow and limited, it does the job.