Having to use retainers to store items is convoluted, outdated, and leads to the item bloat problem that a lot of players are having.

Just keep them around for gathering items, and selling stuff. Add a bank, and make it so that the two are compatible. If we could get a bank like other mmos have, and have item storage tied to it, it would be less annoying to find things.

The storage in this game is all over the place, and not simplified. I'm tired of SE's answer to storage space problems being to add one extra type of storage, rather just a unified one.

With that said, I'd keep the saddlebags, because saddlebags are very useful. Just make it easier to organize our stuff without using our retainers. Other MMO's have it. This one took a weird route. Please change it.