You know, something I don't think anyone has really considered yet.
What if they're not just trying to make Fallout 4 a better Fallout 3?
What if the reason they're changing things in the way they are is because they're trying out a new approach to Fallout? Because thinking about it that's sort of what this is looking like, they're keeping it as Fallout as possible while trying to do it in a different way to see how it works out.