This is a strange, niche card and I'm not quite sure which investigator it was designed for.

The obvious comparison is with the classic Emergency cache : one action nets you 3 extra ressources. Same Old Thing is immediately less interesting, because you need to have 2 ressources available to play it, and you can only use the ressources for events. An Intellect icon to commit doesn't seem enough to make it worthwhile, and sharing the ressources with others seems situational.

The other major difference is that ECache is an event, while Same Old Thing is an asset. Even in Miguel de la Cruz, this is a disadvantage : while Miguel wants ressources to pay for his events (for which ECache works equally well), he cannot use his extra "event" action to play Same Old Thing. And while it is an asset, it is a Condition, not an Item, so Bob Jenkins has no special advantage with it either. So far, Chapter 2 recursion seems to favour events over assets (Hunter's Instinct, Respite). And good old Scavenging doesn't work either (not Item).

So who might prefer Same Old Thing over ECache ?

First : Anyone focused on supporting other investigators while not really needing the ressources themselves. Preston Fairmont comes to mind.

Second : a Dark Horse deck with an emphasis on events ? I have never tried Dark Horse but I'm not seeing it...

Third : William Yorick, who can play it from his discard pile without using an action. How useful this is, compared to bringing back other assets, depends on which events and assets are included in the deck.

Conclusion : making this an Item would have opened up more interesting uses...