Don't know if it's reassuring or not, but for someone who has only played Fallout 4, I took it as bleak satire. From your description 1 & 2 sounds even better,

Don't know if it's reassuring or not, but for someone who has only played Fallout 4, I took it as bleak satire. From your description 1 & 2 sounds even better, but there is plenty to go around even in (maybe a bit bland, I now realize) Fallout 4.