Later Fallouts further trivialized nuclear warfare to the point of 76 making it into a wacky thing to do to get le epic loot drops from le epic monsters.

You're right. I think one of the strangest decisions Obsidian made after nailing it as best they could with the base game was make Lonesome road edgy epic Nuke everybody they're all bad. Maybe the fallout show creators are correct: video games are stupid