https://www.pcgamer.com/fallout-76-players-finally-got-their...
Bethesda seem very 'shitty' i think is the word you're looking for
One does not launch an online game with an expected massive audience and just "forget" that step (which has hurt them several times already) unless utterly lack any processes and any culture that would have caught it.
Now, I know Bethesda is multiple studios and I know nothing about their operations beyond that, but when the reputation is of a company that delivers great story in notoriously buggy products, and trends don't seem to be improving, that says SOMETHING about priorities, right?
Fallout 3, New Vegas, Skyrim, and Fallout 4 were tremendously buggy, and if you take a step back from the "whee immersion" aspect, aren't that good RPGs. The choices are extremely limited and by the time you get to Fallout 4 insultingly so. They all pushed the envelope for explorable area, but you really had to make your own game out of it, and you really have to work at it. Skyrim is only fun for me if I load it up with hella survival mods.
It is buggy, they don't really update it anymore, but the modding community kept it alive and well and the way Bethesda treats their customers doesn't make me optimistic about the future.
Bethesda also shipped the Skyrim remake without replacing the compressed development sound files, making the game's audio worse quality than the 5-year-older original until they patched it decently later.