This is my opinion and you may not agree. Personally, it’s somehow disgusting for me to watch and listen to people who criticize F76 to this day, even after the release of the Wastelanders DLC (I played for 4 days in beta because I pre-ordered the premium edition back in 2018). I personally visited the folych online. I see the situation for myself this way: I immediately guessed what would happen in the game, I followed the game and from all the information I guessed a lot. And people even then began to throw rotten tomatoes at the game. Online... mods... oh God, the game will be online. What about fashion? After all, everyone is already accustomed to killing the game with mods and installing all sorts of crap. It was interesting for me to run around in Folych 76, and I enjoyed it despite all the “authorities” with their YouTube channels where they harp on the topic for the sake of hype. I will say this, although the game is a survival game, it is easy to survive there. I have a vivid example of such games is Rast. In rasta you also survive, build a dm and all this is also online, but unlike rasta there is a very cool plot and many factions with a bunch of NPCs.
About pvp: f76 pvp has long been fixed thanks to the introduction of separate pvp sevres where you can fight with anyone, at any time. At the same time, there is no need to raid other people’s houses, and the result is that you can calmly relax in the game by running around alone or with friends.
About bugs: I almost didn’t have any, except some graphical glitches, which caused 0 problems. I personally haven’t encountered many bugs, but they exist. However, YouTubers showed it in such a way that it was as if something was happening at every step.