Yeah, it honestly makes no sense to me why the developers would ever consider removing items from someone–even if that person got them in an unintended way–in a singeplayer game that affects literally no one else!
Some of us saw the posts about those chests with the best items and had the self-discipline to avoid them, others went straight after them, but honestly since this isn’t an MMO where there would be a disparity among players who either did or didn’t exploit the game, then who cares?
As for some of the other items that got removed from our chests, like Bianca’s Ring, I think they just had different item IDs floating between the different development builds, or they changed the item IDs when they tweaked the stats of certain items, so when the code was compiled one item ID was left, and it was the wrong one for a lot of us depending on the item ID of the item we picked up during a certain patch level.
Either way, I want the ring (and anything else I’m potentially missing) back without having to restart the game, yet again, after investing a couple hundred hours in restarts already just to get where I am.