They’ve progressively added storage upgrades (the last ones are not cheap, but at the point they added them I had way more than enough bells and basically nothing else to use them).

I do the whole catalog hunt, so storage was kind of a struggle initially. I don’t keep orderable or easily craftable stuff if I don’t need it. I just “scan” them by having it in my inventory and then I can re-obtain them whenever I want (easier when you can exchange your finds with other people too). But lots of items are not orderable so those I had to keep. Also lots of bugs and fish for models. Literal walls of cages and tanks crammed on a corner of my island.

But now I am wasting space with the random crap I find and still can’t reach the ludicrous new max limit.