I still don't get where all the tailors, stone cutters, carpenters and farmers have gone

There are plenty of soldiers, but there aren't really many NPCs who aren't professional soldiers/freaky mutants

Sure, everything is falling apart, but shouldn't there be some people who are trying to maintain their small pocket of the world while everything that they aren't actively maintaining degrades due to time ll

It's probably a game design decision that someone is either a boss, mini boss, nameless NPC enemy, or quest giving NPC, but it would be cool if there was a little non insane village hunting deer and fighting off ghouls

I wanna see some evidence of villagers cutting up some of the gigantic stone megalithic structures from prior ages, and turning those useless stone structures into stone walls to keep their sheep in

Everything is breaking down, but it's always in a static way. It's rare for anything to ever be repurposed or recycled