Lets talk about the Bait Box for fishing

[MsQi]

Unless I am missing something the entire point of this button is to search your inventory to pick a bait right? Why is this not treated as a separate storage system akin to how armor is stored?

Because they sell storage, not only one time, but as a subscription. There are a dozen ways they could make storage better and more convenient in this game. The game would be nearly unplayable without either the armory storage or else a lot more general storage, making one of the biggest selling points of the game (ability to have every class/job) the most frustrating, immediately causing the game to sour for most people. Other games use gear profile systems that just pulls from regular inventory or bank inventory, but if they gave us that much general inventory it would make other inventory option less desirable and eat into that income. Being an extreme fisher or dedicated omni-crafter is considered kind of niche.

[tdb]

We have how many crafters? Each have their own materials and the game encourages you to level multiple. Then there is like a million tokens even if you only carry current content ones. Even glamour prisms use up one spot for new reason. And don't get me started on The Diadem.

Honestly though, once you've reached endgame, there aren't that many materials you need. More than 80% of the stuff I've hoarded is junk from past expansions I'm keeping around on the off chance I want to craft an old item for glamour purposes. Yet that chance never seems to materialize. I could just as well throw away all those items and re-acquire them in five minutes if the need arises. I have maybe one retainer's worth of items which are actually relevant and took effort to obtain (though YMMV depending on what you think is important).

[Zorland]

Bait takes up way too much space in my inventory. I just want a separate tackle box. Plain and simple.

I do appreciate the Bait & Tackle screen box, but just wish it was not taking up space in my normal inventory.

Please just separate the two from each other.

[Arohk]

IIRC Yoshi P has explicitly said this is a feature they'll never add.
For better or worse we should direct our energies elsewhere.

If this is true, why is he stubborn against improving the game?

[Frizze]

If this is true, why is he stubborn against improving the game?

The short version is that they struggle to add more inventory space. So if they manage to squeeze in more, they would prefer to do it for inventory that can hold anything rather then space that can just hold one type of thing - bait in this instance. The typical advice to newer players is not to hoard bait. You only need it while you are actively fishing(and indeed, you will typically only need a couple at a time during any active fishing session), and most of it is SUPER replaceable. Let the market board/junkmonger act as your extra inventory space.

[Arohk]

The short version is that they struggle to add more inventory space. So if they manage to squeeze in more, they would prefer to do it for inventory that can hold anything rather then space that can just hold one type of thing - bait in this instance. The typical advice to newer players is not to hoard bait. You only need it while you are actively fishing(and indeed, you will typically only need a couple at a time during any active fishing session), and most of it is SUPER replaceable. Let the market board/junkmonger act as your extra inventory space.

If creating more inventory space is such a big problem, they need to create more currency tabs instead.
Makes Baits a currency instead of an item. How that wrks? the same way as Scrips or Tomestones.

[DrWho2010]

the problem with currency is that it's more data that may or may not be useless that your character has to drag around everytime they teleport or go into an instance, etc. All that data moves with you wherever you go. They want to limit how much is attached to your character. That's why retainers work the way they do as well as the chocobo saddlebag.