I take perverse pleasure in the crafting content OWB offers, but paradoxically, I hate micromanaging my inventory, especially through all the damn menus of the Pipboy. The speakers were not that frustrating to me except in 'final dungeon' leading up to the gold vault and even that was not a dealbreaker.
Part of it is that I was much less of a Hoardy MacHoarderson and just kept my baggage light. Some of it, I think, is that I was rushing through the content a bit much to really just enjoy it. I admit that I've enjoyed Dead Money more on a repeat playthrough.