[2023] Solution to magazine debacle

I'm playing a mod right now that makes it so that all weapons, armor, and tools found in loot are broken and can only be used for scrap and parts and traders only sell up to orange quality of anything. Purple quality is intact but can only be found at a much higher lootstage. So far I'm crafting everything.

It wouldn't be a matter of starting from scratch for a travelling NPC/Trader. There is already coding for that in place which I believe some modders have capitalized on. I agree that it would be faster and simpler to just tweak the existing traders but it wouldn't take very much work to get something like the OP's traveling magazine salesman up and running.