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Otherwise situation like this may happen due to inventory size bonus, and you don't have much time for clicking standing naked inside enemy territory. If there are several armors available, pick and dress the one with biggest inventory size bonus (or probably even remember in corpse entity what armor was worn, that could be extended to automatically reequipping last weapons and selecting recent one, the pistol you carry - drop it on the ground). All in all, right-click is expected to bring you back to where you were before except for batterry charge ofc.

I could have sworn this was already what happens when you loot the body containing armor while having nothing on you

Well, in my case it didn't That was power armor MK2 with full inventory, and when I left-click the corpse, it's the last item on it

Given the option between the items on my corpse, and the items on my freshly-printed-body, I'm almost always going to prefer the items on my corpse.
If the game supported that by auto-dropping items on my fresh-print to make room for my corpse inventory, that would be a QOL improvement from my perspective.