As the title says, after my first NG , I decided to restart another NG 1, and now I'm picking up duplicate grenades, throwables, spells, tincts, gestures and even duplicate key items. Instead of these items being replaced by consumables as they were in my first NG , they are now being duplicated, so I have multiple doubles of items and spells and no way to get rid of them.

IE: I bought the Pilgrim's Perch key, and then when Stromund left Skyrest, he left another key with his note...

Also got 2 Manse Kitchen Keys from the holy bulwark mob in front of the Leprosarium vestige in the same playthrough. Once upon first kill and another after returning later to use the rune of adyr on the shrine atop the tower.

I'm not interested in NG 2 due to the reduction of vestiges (which imho is a stupidly lazy and negligent design choice, but whatever) so I'd rather avoid it, but if replaying NG is just going to keep loading my inventory with more duplicates that I can't get rid of, I'd rather not play at all.

I know the devs are working to fix things, but they're spending more time worrying about buffing/tweaking bosses than fixing the numerous bugs that plague this game.