Yeah, only the biggest haters shill out 200 dollars, so they can then whine about a miniscule detail. It's not like there was an ongoing, deliberate campaign of false advertisement going with Bethesda hoping noone would notice. It's not like this whole ordeal was just a big fucking mess that is one giant metaphore for how Bethesda has been running things for a decade now.
Fair point, but I still contend Fallout 4 had the redeeming virtue that most of the suck could be modded out and with some work, the game could be enjoyable enough you at least didn't mind buying it while it was on sale.
If anything, that is an aknowledgement of the capabilities of the modding community and absolutely no feat pertaining to FO4 itself.
Bethesda's biggest contribution is not interfering with this, which is something they attempted with Oblivion, where they burned their hands severely and thus learned their lesson.
We shouldn't be happy with Bethesda for "allowing" people to fix their shitty products, we should expect them to deliver a non-shitty product when it is released. Anything less should make us mad, we should not go "Oh, but the community will fix it eventually". Bethesda's job, the thing they get our money for, is to deliver that on day 1, not just standing by the sidelines, idly watching while fans fix the mess for free afterwards.
There's a great German word for this kind of thing:
Armutszeugnis, the "evidence of poverty", usually meant to indicate incapacity or incompetence. Bethesda is a multi-billion dollar company, yet they are
dependent on fans to fix their stuff and make it work.
That's just shameful beyond words.