audentis

There's one factor the OP is forgetting: the frequency at which items spawn in baracks. I think the higher number of barracks is an improvement if, at later stages of development, the spawnrate of gear goes down. That ensures military gear stays rare, that you won't be fully geared from walking through one or two bases and that the availability of it is spread over the map. However right now it's more important for people to access all this gear easily for debugging purposes. Stuff like the magazines disappearing if you reload without inventory space wouldn't have been found if people rarely ever had weapons or magazines to begin with.