For me, I use the enhanced client. You can set up macros to dress, undress, and switch equipment and weapons around, but you can't undress or unequip items into a specific container with the enhanced client. You can right click to loot with the enhanced client, but you can't loot into a specific container.
This means that all the items I loot will tend to be mixed up in my pack with any optional or supplemental equipment or items that I carry. I generally only loot items to unravel them, so while I can be careful, I would rather have a "stupid light" to prevent me from being, well stupid, because I know no matter how careful I am I am perfectly capable of making mistakes.
My other option is to not use macros to dress, undress, or switch equipment, but to always click and drag, and to not use right click to loot, but to always click and drag, which would mean I no longer have access to some of the best functionality the enhanced client has to offer, it would also make me less effective in both pvp and pvm.
So as I hope you can see, my suggestion had nothing to do with my political views, and I don't think much to do with laziness either, or anything other than a recognition of my own fallibility...