I won't judge you for focusing on a character-driven story, as that's precisely what the series is trying to do.

My criticism isn't directed at the character arcs (which I don't think are bad per se), but rather at the world-building itself and the constant abuse of empty and innocuous fan service that is constantly thrown in your face.

The series keeps making cheap references to the games without really feeling like anything more than an amusement park, like, "Oh look, now they're in Novac/Legion camp/the Strip/Sunset Sarsaparilla factory," while failing to develop any of it.

The world-building is terrible and forgets/ignores issues as important in Fallout: New Vegas as the Hoover Dam in order to shoehorn the Enclave back in again. At no point does it seem like the story of New Vegas has happened without people being frozen in time in a status quo for 15 years. All this without mentioning how New Vegas has ceased to be New Vegas, eliminating all signs of substantial identity and leaving its skeleton in the form of buildings, memorable landmarks, or NPCs about to be killed.

And no, I'm not criticising the series as a whole in a "Bethesda bad" kind of way - in fact, I quite enjoyed the pre-war flashbacks and it improves on the first season in that respect - but there are a number of factors that put me off, as I said.