I once said in the twitch streams I believe it was that ordering weapons, ammo, meds, tools and armor from JA2 online store predates my amazon prime obsession and it's just funny how true that is.
You can imagine my monumental disappointment with the developers current in game vendor choices in JA3- as much as I have enjoyed, and been frustrated, playing a good JA game.
The number of times I have heard "that is how it was in JA2" so don't complain about it means I feel turnabout is fair here.
Crafting, IMHO, is a really nice addition, bonus as it were, but not a replacement for the online shop or the woefully inadequate have to pay a bunch of pricey mercs to travel to the (IMHO) fleatown market half baked solution. The cost of lost opportunity to have to ship a whole squad of mercs (to make use of inventory slots) to shop across a map is maybe defeating.
Great general said something once about logistics being what wins and all that!