Obsidian has never had the money to build a huge sprawling game like bethesdas games.
Their games are always more with less.
Avowed gameplay is much better than anything bethesda has ever done.
They just don’t even try to craft a huge “living world”
Ironically concentrating on making that huge living world was the source of all the criticism of starfield.
Then with obsidian games people complain that they don’t have the things people complained about in starfield.
From my perspective it’s just agenda fueled narratives people like to repeat cause they heard it somewhere else.
New Vegas wasn’t some far and away better game than fallout 3, people just said and repeated that cause obsidian was the underdog at the time.