With all due respect, I'd like to remind you, that although they committed to making the game better, they never once said outright "this means more inventory space! So hoard loot to your hearts content!" They committed to completing the game, before making changes. Also, approach this from a coding standpoint. All of our pirates data, is stored on a server somewhere, now, to expand our inventory, there's probably some sort of server-side change that has to take place, for that to work. This could cause people to potentially lose items, or randomly gain another player's items. I'm sure if the devs were to add this, they'd do it right, my point is though, its not just as simple as pushing a button, and wallah, you have 4 pages of inventory. It's more complicated than that. I feel like people are taking for granted the TLOPO team's kindness and hard work, and turning small issues into large ones, to get what they want. I don't define this as "a HUGE issue". Is it game breaking? No. Thus, it really shouldn't be at the top of their priorities list in my opinion. Like I said, I'm not gonna complain about them adding more inventory, but I'd much rather have Raven's Cove, cursed blades, Cannon Defense, sea items, invasions, etc. This should not come before core mechanics of the original game. The original goal was to completely recreate POTCO to the state it was in on the day it closed, and I believe that should be priority #1, not more inventory space.
