On one level it’s the ammo system in Doom, elaborated further. If you start preferring freeze-type status effects for instance, you’ll notice that every freezing ammunition shares the same underlying crafting resource kinda like cells are used for plasma and BFG.
So you either can’t abuse it too hard and need to mix in other approaches you’re less comfortable with, or if you really want to commit to freezing the crap out of everything then you need to go on special hunts for herds of freeze canister deer (which are great fun)
It’s a good system. Not just junk for the sake of junk