Fallout 4 is a fascinatingly terrible game. Gameplay wise, it is fun to shoot things, mod your guns, and build settlements, but the RPG mechanics are BioWare levels of terrible and the writing in general just makes me scratch my head the second I think about it even for a second. So many ideas presented are done so terribly without a second thought and anything of interest is immediately handwaved away or dumbed down. I could prattle on and on and on about the completely stupid choices made, but the ultimate example of how half baked the writing is, is that when you meet the leader of the Institute, you can ask them why they're doing the evil things they do. Now this is a thing in just about every other mainline Fallout game. you can talk to the antagonist faction leader and ask why they do the things they do and they will lay it out and tell you. Talking to Caesar in New Vegas and him explaining his problems with the NCR in detail, his obsession with ancient Rome, and how he completely misunderstands dialectics was one of the moments that made the game really stand out against other popular games at the time. Now in Fallout 4 when you reach the Institute, you have a little chat with Father, and you can ask him what the deal is with the synths, why they made perfect synthetic humans that have the capacity to have free will but are just used as slaves and spies. What does Father tell you?

"It would be too complicated for you to understand."