Blitz rewards replacing inventory items

When playing Blitz, the player is rewarded a random item when the Blitz Level increases. When your inventory was full, it used to drop the new item where you were. Now, it replaces an item from your inventory. This is really annoying when you switch to an item that was in your inventory, like a shotgun, but now instead of a shotgun when you need it most during a fight, you now have a big pot and start popping a big pot instead of firing your shotgun at the player in front of you. If you defeat the player with your big pot, you now have to go back into storm to get the gold pump that you used to have because it was replaced with said big pot automatically mid rotate 45 seconds ago. This has been seen on both PC and console. It has cost me nearly every game that I have been in because my managed inventory is no longer my managed inventory but an inclusion of randomly awarded items in slots that I had dutifully looted and managed previously.

Is this some new feature or handicap from Epic? Can you please revert it? The Blitz game is nearly unplayable if I have to turn off auto pick up AND keep an empty inventory slot just in case I gain a Blitz Level random item during a fight.