There is a lot to your post that could be addressed, but I'm going to just ignore that stuff for my own sake. I'll stick to the meat of your post based on the title of this thread. Not only did this happen a year or more ago, it was so clearly meant to be a tongue in cheek joke. I am baffled at how many people took that comment seriously. Larian was just trying to engage in some good-natured teasing. A bit of "haha, we gave you so many weird options but the most popular thing was super basic and normal, isn't that ironic?" There's no genuine criticism to be found. It was a one-off joke that I don't believe they've brought up again since. Was it a good joke? Eh. I would argue that it's so basic and simple that there really isn't enough to it that it could be good, but it's not really bad by that measure either. Humor is subjective obviously, and if you didn't like the joke, you didn't like the joke, but let's be on the same page over the fact that it is indeed a joke. You can argue that Larian hasn't earned the kind of comraderie from the fanbase that such a joke typically requires, but they aren't actually disappointed and I do not believe they actually care. I'd be shocked if anyone involved even remembers that was said. In a very real sense, the comment doesn't matter. It has not impcated their design philosophy in any way we can identify. They aren't stopping anyone from making more "default vault dwellers" are they?
