I have a theory that there is a way to have both the cargo efficiency of the Atlas and the "smuggling" high-profit play that the Atlas is supposed to be bad at.
Spend $5000 to buy storage space on a barren world that has food shortages.
Use Atlas to quickly and efficiently store massive amounts of food in your storage space (hey, the tooltip says that the food is certified edible for at least 5 years).
Every time the barren world has a food shortage, visit it and take food from your storage space and sell it.
Is that overpowered? Should this be kept or not? I mean this might be cool because it might be really really good to promote market stability. Have a shortage? Faced with a blockade? Local warehouse to the rescue! Because this is like the opposite of a blockade that decreases the world's stability because of a shortage, might fixing the chronic shortage problem this way actually increase the world's stability?
If we are keeping this, then why can't this storage to market transaction be done over FTL comms without you even having to visit the planet or maybe even the star system?