At what point do NV fans just stop worrying about everything made post New Vegas? The franchise as it was is completely different to now, you may as well just consider nu-Fallout non-canon. Hell, with poojeet Maxson and the dismissive nature of stuff established in Fallout 3, it may as well be a totally non-canon spinoff property. It isn't like Bethesda, 20 years from now, won't shit all over the new lore anyway.
Obsidian is not making a new Fallout ever again (nor should anyone want them to) and there is enough modded material to play that if you must have new Fallout you are better off just disregarding any new official products.
This x100.
I really haven’t cared about Fallout since New Vegas. I don’t need to worry about lore being butchered or bastardisation future shitty TV shows.
I’ve got a solid, stable modded copy of FNV; protected against random Todd updates thanks to i) GOG version with updates prohibited, and ii) MO2 mod organizer booting the game via iii) NVSE.
I can, for the rest of my days, play this game which I consider a one-stop shop for all my Fallout needs. I could visit Zion and maybe one day be brave enough to offend Joshua; finally find the full dead man’s hand in the Sierra Madre; actually side with Caesar one playthrough; and maybe, just fucking maybe, have the nerve to tell Corporal Betsy ‘how about a date, I like tough women’.
The game is big enough and so well-written that even after playing it so long, there is still a shit-ton I have never tried or done. I’ve never once tackled Camp Searchlight, never done anything other than kill Benny, never really progressed Raul’s quest. And never mind the great location mods and content changes to the wasteland (FPGE, Living Desert, cut content restoration etc etc).
And when the day finally comes when I’m sick of the game - finally - I’ll pick up a new game and play something else. I’m at peace that no-one on this planet will make another canon Fallout game of any value. And that’s fine. I’ve got everything I need in this here one package, greatly enhanced by QoL mods.
I enjoyed Fallout 3 but left my heart in New Vegas. Do your worst to the franchise Todd, you can’t fucking spoil what I have all safely set up with FNV.