I wish power armor, would have been much much harder to repair and keep.... Every vanilla playthrough I have run, I end up with a power armor dump from all the frames and full sets I have extra... The way it was made, there is no reason why Raiders even need to make their own power armor.... it's everywhere, you already have the power cell, jump in a new set and go....
To fix this in modded games I use the mod Scarcity to make power armor parts more precious, and harder to repair....
Those were the near exact thoughts that led to Scarcity. Why are ragtag settlers and wastelanders showing up at my door with crappy pipe guns and somehow surviving all the dangers of the world wearing a freaking suit and tie? Fusion cores rain from the sky and you can't turn around without tripping over another PA suit just sitting out in the open.
If I have to choose *one* thing to change, it would be the root cause of all the other things too many to list I couldn't possibly choo- okay, maybe the gawdawful AI - but it's the design philosophy I'd change. They pushed the "modders will fix it" button waaaaaay too often this time around, and it's edged over the line into just plain sloppy work. This is what you get from a wholly-owned public corporation, sadly. QA? We don't need to waste the money on that, look how much I'm saving in my budget, boss! Spend another week working on this half-assed system that's causing trouble? Waste of staff time and money, upper management says if it runs it's good and move on to the next thing.
Bethesda's corporate culture seems to be skewing off in a bad direction. You always have this stuff to some degree with any corporate entity, but the cosmic balance has been disrupted, so to speak. They dug too greedily, and too deep. It's still a great framework that has allowed some amazing things to be done with it - but around every corner is another shoddy "good enough" component that seems half finished. To say nothing of so much meaningful content being cut. Kill depth, kill player agency, kill QA, push another shooter out the door to consoles. That's what shareholders know. Or think they do.
I think a while back it was mentioned that a Beth rep actually came out and said that the PC market was like 25% of their sales, and so "not a priorty." They think they're being Smrt Bsnss Ppl. In fact, this is incredibly stupid, as merely one hop further takes you to "and the PC market is 100% of modders, which you depend on now more than ever before to make your games playable and keep sales going for years past the usual video game shelf life."
TL;DR They need to get they heads right, yo