I tend to agree with this, to a point. Most of the cases I have received with new tools in the last few decades have been worse than useless-- oversized, odd shaped, and poorly made. THey take too much space, don’t fit shelves or drawers well, break, don’t protect the tool well, often are hard to open and close, and, in many cases (pun intended), provide poor or misleading affordances (unclear top, difficult to put the tool back in the correct position, and so on). I have no problem throwing them out.
I keep a few larger tools in the original cases (corded portaband, sawzall, right angle drill for example, that get more use on the road than in the shop, for example… maybe half a dozen), and make compact, easy to store, cases for precision tools that either get little use or go into the field. A few ‘collectable’ precision tools are in the original cases, when the cases came with them, but even most of them lose the case due to age-related deterioration.
Most tools just live in one of the chests or in a special purpose kit. The most heavily used stay in the most accessible location, like the mid-grade 0-25mm micrometer that lives in the stand on my light work/electronics bench, and 150mm vernier caliper next to it.
As my shop is far from sterile, dust free, or dry, few things stay out when not in use, and nothing sits within 100mm of the floor that is not watertight.