Everyone likes & dislikes different aspects. I don't enjoy games that aren't a challenge, period. If it's easy then to me it's just a waste of time and I'll get easily bored, even though I'm am very much an immersion junkie. (BTW, current Cyberpunk 2077 is very, very good if you like open-world RPGs with a strong main story.) To me what feels like "work" are the infinite fetch-quests and other horrible filler game companies now add to make their titles "longer." I vastly prefer title with a strong story *and* open-world(ish) mechanics over randomly generated "please go pick up my groceries for me, and then do it 100 more times but with slightly different wording" filler. Really, it isn't drudgery, it's a "quest," we promise! I find Skyrim to be almost mind-numbingly boring, for example, while others absolute adore it. I would have liked it FAR better with 25% of the total content, but that 25% being really strong; great voice acting, amazing script, etc. (Think DAO but way more open-world.)
Fallout 3 and Fallout New Vegas possibly inhabit the perfect blend of RPG, Narrative, and Open-World. FO4, as much as I like it, has a TON of filler and that filler isn't well done.
I'm mostly done with a VR makeover that I'll probably publish on Nexus as a mod-list with instructions once I've played through the entire main-plot to make sure nothing breaks.
But the visual makeover mods you are seeing in my screenshots will work with the flat version just fine and are mostly due to:
Vivid Fallout:
https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/1769
Far Harbor Style Commonwealth:
https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/38327
Another Pine Forest:
https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/54027
Starlight Drive-in and Diner - Lighting:
https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/10089
Note that I've very carefully chosen things that work best in VR, where there is zero performance to spare. If you have plenty of available performance to spare you can find alternatives that might look slightly better or give you more options. You can also light many other aspects of the signage with a variety of illumination mods, if you choose to do so.