this is a controversial opinion: auto-menders aren't very good

[Zamujasa]

I personally do not think that doctoring should be more difficult than it already is when people are still dropping like flies. The menders have a slow ramp up time that requires everyone to stand still. Patches were literally just click-n-stick.

Also "inventory management" is a laugh, you could easily stuff medkits full of patches and then stuff a backpack with them. Two patches would be applied nearly instantly and heal something like 60 brute.