Bethesda fallout has never been fallout. It has the name and even the pip boy, but none of the soul.
The formula is so simple. You lionize the 1950s as an American golden age and set that idea inside a spaghetti post nuclear exchange western. Bethesda was making disaster porn, which is fine! It even approaches good sometimes. It just isn't fallout in the iconic sense.
The innocent and the sinister, that's where all the humor in fallout comes from. Just two simple ideas. Bethesda games don't really fit, they're just too open ended. It's not a bad thing of itself, it's just not the same thing.
so I hope obsidian can get back to two simple ideas. But, tbh, I hope it isn't the 1950s. It would be a small disappointment if they played it that safe.