Interestingly, in UO the ground was a grid based system, you could only drop items into a tile and they would be centered there. So the floating inventory system was different code it would seem than the discrete ground system.
Sure, your language has some kind of lists or arrays or whatever, and you could use one to store an inventory. But the UI designer decided that the player should be able to rearrange items in their inventory, so now you have to store a position for each one. And it has to have a background image, and such. But that’s what a room is! The room itself has a normal array of items and an array of positions, or something similar.
Sure, rooms have a few extra features that containers don’t necessarily require, such as the ability to have exits. But that’s ok, the list of exits can be empty. No problem. Even if you enumerated all of those extra features you might not realize to document that nobody should ever put _actors that can move around on their own_ into a container.
