One thing I've always been surprised that more people didn't complain about...………..
With Fallout 3, you had this infinite amount of cry babies whine about how the ending (pre-Broken Steel DLC) didn't make sense. If you had the ghoul or super mutant follower, you could not just get them to activate the purifier. A pity, too, as they'd be safe from the radiation. Instead, either you or Sarah have to do it, it's the only choices the game gives you. Now, I get the reason for the complaints, but at the same time I get why it was originally that way. It's a game that wasn't originally meant to be open ended (as many of the "purists" should remember, the original Fallout wasn't either). That said, it was worth Bethesda's time to change this in the Broken Steel DLC. And overall, it was awesome. Making the game open ended was sweet, but really only for the sake of playing the quests you may have missed. But still, it seemed to be the topic of relentless whining. It was, and still is, quite irritating.
Yet, you never hear any of them complain about Fallout 4's weak ass ending, that not only makes no sense, but is ball faced fakery.
You detonate what amounts to a nuclear bomb when you (if you) destroy the Institute. Now as many folks have pointed out, this would be stupid simply because it would waste a perfect area to live or start a settlement, complete with clean and fresh medical facilities, clean water, food, ect. But most people don't realize the overwhelming HARM you would bring to Boston by NUKING IT. The blast wave was well big enough to level Diamond City, as well as the rest of the surrounding area. Remember, CIT is only just across the river from Diamond City, well within the blast radius. Most of those settlements you created, they'd be wiped out. Unless all your settlements were Vault Tec vaults (and the Vault DLC didn't exists originally) they would not be able to withstand a nuclear explosion.
This has ALWAYS driven me crazy. How does something like this slip through the cracks when writing this stuff? Did a child write it? I mean, C'MON. Use a little common sense here Bethesda. Bombs were what got us here! You'd be starting the apocalypse all over again.