Could they make money off it, sure, and lol the lotr series shows simple isn’t always better.
However. I do think they’d lose most people with all the bear bull talk lmao of FNV. That said they don’t actually have to make it like fnv at all, coulda just simply not mentioned those details or keep them. Doubt it’d change the story at all.
As you said, my position is t honestly that it needed to be this way. It didn’t. It’s more that, they’ve been disrespecting the series for so long as is that I never expected the show to be any different. When you said it was bad, I thought you meant like, LOTR bad, like race changing, lgbt stuff etc.
This is honestly up there with a best case scenario imo, it being actually entertaining and good. I don’t think I’d honestly think different were I a bigger fan.
Take elder scrolls for instance. I think the only detail that would set me off from a tv show of tes would be Stormcloak related. Or shitting on Nord lore which is a central pillar of the lore imo