Yeah for sure. The story of Fallout 4 should have resolved before you ever thawed, or it shouldn’t have been happening. The Minutemen were destroyed but I guess no one filled the power void. (What even were the minutemen? A political entity? Did they have a presence in diamond city or goodneigbor? Who paid them? Did they extract taxes from farms? I guess we’ll never know). The Commonwealth is a place ravaged by Raiders who thoughtlessly kill and rob farmers, it’s basically a no-mans land warzone, but for some reason, people still live and farm and trade there. The railroad and institute have no interest in anything that doesn’t involve synths, but they’re both in a complete stalemate before the protagonist arrives for no reason. The world doesn’t need to literally progress without the protagonist present like in shadow of war or something, but the narrative should act like it will.

Bethesda is in love with this idea of the wasteland as a lawless wild-west with a million tiny factions and no states, even though it’s been two hundred years and political power solidified in the west over a century ago. They even destroyed the NCR in the show so they could have this