You’re not the only one, I created a topic for this way back (you posted in it, so you know of course). It gained a bit of traction, but all we got was a vague promise to look at bringing scavenging back “in some form” (incidentally no-one asked for new mechanics or concepts to be developed, really, we just wanted the change reverted).
Of course that thread is locked now, due to inactivity: