Is there a cap to the number of shards you can hold in the Crafting Items menu? If not, I suggest shard pickup to be automatic like gold, and automatically store them in “crafting items” as well. Every group of mobs drops at least 2-3 and I’m always picking these things up and hitting “store crafting items” every time I open my inventory to clear out 2/3 of the space.
If not, then reduce the number of shards that drop. There’s just too many currently to warrant manual pickup. Slows down gameplay too much imo.