If there's one thing that disappoints me about Fallout 4, it is indeed the writing. I remember wondering how and why the main character had such an easy adjustment to living in the wastes, fighting raiders and such, with hardly a word of why or when.
As it turns out, a lot of that stuff is easily skippable.
Take Abernathy Farms, for instance. A low level settlement right next to Sanctuary that supposedly you can get sent to for your first Minutemen mission. I've played through the beginning of Fallout 4 like three times, and that hasn't happened once. I stumbled upon it a good few hours into my last game and, wouldn't you know it, there's a whole fucking conversation with one of the Abernathys about "what are raiders?" and "what are caps?". The fact that this is the only place this happens, and that this place is somewhere that most players might not even come to, infuriates me.
Bethesda continues to amaze me in many ways, most of them not good.
Game is still a solid 7-8/10 in my book.