Yeah sure, try to keep up with crafting skill and water in MP Coop without looting a lot. Good luck with that.
And on higher difficulties and wanting to see different biomes than just forest you need to do a lot of looting to keep up with your gamestage for magazines in SP aswell. Sure there is magazine stands and mail boxes, but tbh that´s not what i want when playing a survival game that mailboxes and magazine stands are essential loot containers.
And if you don´t want easy mode with questing and trading it get´s even worse if you don´t go looting constantly.
Hence why this changes killed a lot of ways to play.