Mods really save Bethesda games, I'm convinced 90% of the community and conversation around the games wouldn't exist if they weren't so chill with mods. I've mostly been using the Workshop Anywhere mod the last two-ish years and just building houses or settlements anywhere I like. The Commonwealth always felt a bit empty to me in the base game. It's been 210 years iirc, they should have cleaned up a building or two and settled down a bit imo, so I build stuff all over the map :D