>Now I just can't get this pouch from the ground.

Yup.

>When I try, it says "You can't take that."
>Is it now intended?

Yup.

>It makes things very inconvenient.

And?

>Also, I have like ten such pouches in my girdle of endless
>space.
>I can't get any of them from the girdle. "You can't take
>that." again.
>I don't want to experiment emptying the girdle since I can't
>predict
>how it will behave.
>Could you please re-fix it so that one can take pouches, and
>that
>one can get them from the container where they already are?

Nope. Empty should probably work as expected (dumping it from the container to the ground) but you won't be able to pick them back up.