megazeroexe Posted:

This way, if I have 5 of an item now, and I see a week later I have 5 of another item, and the original 5 are gone, and there’s no other new item that has exactly 5, I can tell what it turned into.

Only maybe.

With consumables, sometimes multiples of Item A will turn into a limited number of Item B, no matter how many of Item A you had to start with.