Exactly. Auto-chaining is much easier and avoids a lot of unnecessary "quest giver" NPCs. Also, I still don't know why we actually need to put things in our bags that are quest items only. There are a dozen better ways to handle this, but my top to are a "quest inventory" or simply a tracker as part of the quest. You "pick up" the item and your number picked up increases by that many. The object itsself doesn't actually "exist".