Ok Sarakin, as I see we don't share the same oppinion. You as a casual player and a member of the rich gang want this items to be solely available for you, not for others. I understand. But from my point of view, this game is slowly dying in terms of a stable playerbase. Items are hard to craft (if you don't count .45 ammo) and even farming isn't as funny as it used to be. A lot of great encounters got deleted, like NCR Army encounters or SF caravans.
This enclave looting is so easy... then how come I still see a lot of people running with miniguns and wearing leather armors? Following your logic every single person should be running with an avenger because it's so cheap, but that's not happening somehow.
And yes, loner should never have best stuff available, best stuff should be obtained only through teamwork.
Then expect even less people playing this game because guess what, there are people who prefer to play alone and enjoy the game. When you tell them "you play alone you have to suffer" then nobody from them will bother with playing.
If the first thing that comes to your mind is that players should dual log, level themselves a sneak sniper alt able to do only this task and then grind them with as little gear as possible then okay, seems like we got a bit differend view what's a fun and good feature.
Then it would be fair to introduce another possibility of getting it, if you nerf one thing because of what you mentioned (irrationality) would be fine to have another, fixed feature. Nerfing isn't always bad, but nerfing without introducing a solution is.
Even now (sorry for little offtopic) I don't see the point of having unguarded workbenches, because every time I go to Mariposa or Toxic caves looking for "action" there is nobody or in better case one plasma sneaker. For average player this means that he is forced to make a tent or a base near such place and spend a lot of time running to a workbench to craft one or two items. As I don't craft I won't analyze any further, only wanted to highlight this issue, maybe someone will create a new topic about it so we can discuss.