Considering that Salvage is still, after many years of people complaining about the issue, very much useless; I took it upon myself to bring up few ideas which apparently nobody in Ubisoft thought about yet.

1. Change cost of changing gear appearance from Steel to Salvage. Salvage is supposed to be the gear currency. I honestly have no idea why it is not used for this already
2. Double Salvage cost of gear upgrade and reduce Steel gear upgrade cost by the same amount.
3. Introduce new cosmetics obtainable only through a truly ridiculous amount of salvage. To show everyone you are a true hoarder.
4. Use Salvage to expand inventory space. That 60 limit can get somewhat annoying during longer play sessions.

There is also the possibility of just straight up introducing melting Salvage into Steel at some ridiculous ratio like 10000:1, but that is lazy and almost as bad as not introducing a solution.