The thing about playing this after other Fallouts is that you easily notice certain flaws; the map having little places to explore, skills like hacking and repair relying on rolls meaning you don't have to level them up and can just re-attempt infinitely, etc. But what you get in exchange is genuinely one of the hardest atmospheres I've seen in any game period, it is such an extreme feeling of desolation and loneliness even for Fallout standards, combined with the story and timer giving you anxiety just for existing. It's an imperfect but really unique experience and I'm glad I finally played it.

Back when I was an early teen I used to look at YouTube videos about mysteries and secrets in GTA: San Andreas where people would obviously use mods to pretend aliens were a real thing in the game.
This game and its community feels exactly like that, except that all of the insane bullshit you find about the game is indeed real, and I love that.
Only big criticism about the game that I have is that too many days don't have events, leading to a lot of empty days and a bunch of cool events such as one relating to the sun just not happening to me in my entire 40 day playthrough.

This game is nothing short of one of the most atmospheric and fun PVE games I've played in a while, but as much leeway as I wanted to give it because there isn't really a full AAA team behind it and is being updated weekly, I can't help but feel that my frustrations have only grown more as I play it.
It just has so many issues like armor being useless, stratagems taking so long to use, many pieces of equipment being underpowered, some enemies being unfun to play against, planetary effects very few times being positive but almost always being tedious, and the insanely bad optimization and amount of crashes. It just makes me mad cus if it all of this was polished, like it seemingly was on Helldivers 1, it would be my favorite co-op game period.