High content numbers like planets shouldn’t really impress anyone, using no man’s sky as a good example. You can easily make a trillion variations on brown planet orange sky river here ocean here, green planet purple sky, ocean here and river here, but it’s not meaningful or interesting. 20 Hand crafted planets is probably way more interesting than 700 trillion randomly generated ones. The fact that it has 1000 planets is actually a red flag to me until someone reviews it and indicates that this is actually a feature in its favor. But 1000 is a lot better than a billion or whatever no man’s sky has - that is within the realm of semi-curated content along the lines that @Johnny_Bravo describes.
As for why Fallout 4 is considered by many to be bad, we’ve got a bunch of Fallout 4 threads on this board that go over it. This being the main one. Among many criticism, the main one is that the user only has illusion of choice. Previous fallout games had real dialog trees with real choices, Fallout 4 only has “yes” “sarcastic yes” “suspicious yes” “no (yes)”
Anyway, I’ll try it on gamepass if it’s good. I’m not expecting much. People overrate Bethesda based on shit they did 12+ years ago (which itself was overrated) and we’ve had a lot of turnover and bad stuff in the meantime. Fallout 76 is both predatory and a laughable disaster.