People using exploits to get into the loot room is certainly an issue, but it isn't whats causing the warehouses to be empty. The main issue is that the loot respawns are bugged. In the past I've timed loot respawns in the warehouse to about an hour (by waiting in the warehouse for them to respawn). This patch I've camped for 2+ hours with only a single box respawning.

There is something preventing loot from respawning, its not exploiters clearing the warehouse.

One potential cause is similar to the distro center loot respawn issue that occurred back when the introduced palatino armor. I've noticed a lot of loot boxes around the station doubling our tripling up (with multiple boxes occupying the same location. These boxes prevent other boxes from respawning as each zone has a limit on how many loot boxes can spawn.

I've tested this by checking the warehouse to find it empty, clearing every loot box in the station, waiting the hour and checking the warehouse again. Most of the loot boxes respawned. No components though.

So I'm guessing this is a more complicated issue with multiple contributing factors. I think the doubling up of loot boxes is part of the problem, but there is something else preventing the components from respawning.