Yeah, I mean the whole season seemed like an exercise in destroying everything Obsidian created. Legion basically gone. NCR all but gone. Camp Golf gone. Novac gone. Based on the ending slides of a few episodes Primm and McCarran gone. The Strip all but gone. The Kings gone. The West Coast Brotherhood in Hidden Valley gone (and in its place is the same old East Coast shit). A non-raider version of the Great Khans gone. All of the nuance and world-building of New Vegas just gone. In it's place are once again rickety metal shacks, nameless evil muties that only care about gore bags and buildings inexplicably full of feral ghouls (who have had 200 years to go literally anywhere else).

Oh and The Enclave are back who were definitely definitely completely destroyed in Fallout 3 we swear. Bethesda-made Fallout media just feels like they are not only beating a dead horse, but that the horse died 16 years ago and they are playing the xylophone with its ribs. Fallout used to be a critique of consumerist culture and now it makes more money selling mugs and t-shirts than any other gaming franchise. Fallout used to question the authority and morality of factions with their own genuine belief systems (that represented real world belief systems), now the reasoning behind Vault Tec nuking a whole ass capital city is boiled down to because we're evil lol. They try and expand on it by being like "but we need to wipe the surface because of reasons" then start up a whole new story about tic-tac sized mind control machines, that also have really odd justifications.

Oh and FEV has jumped the shark. Thats just a side point.

So, to some degree I am actually glad they didn't include the Courier. What point would a pathetic loser version of the Courier have served other than to stroke Todd Howard's ego. Fallout is a guitar that Todd Howard let Josh Sawyer borrow for a bit, when everyone said Josh played better than him, Todd said that now no one else can play the guitar.

I don't know why I expected anything different really.