I don't like the 'you basically get the item for a few ticks' thing -- in a handful of cases, a few ticks is all you really care about (e.g., a certain magical deck of cards from an explore area) and I'm not that interested in having to figure them out and do something about them.

I'm not opposed to having a way to see what stuff is in an area that's maxed, but I'm also not personally interested in working on it. I don't think it's a bad idea, but there are too many things I would rather work on or need to work on over it that I'm sure I would never get that far down the list.