There's an immense amount of irony in you talking about political messaging and then using Fallout as an example of just "political satire". Let's be honest here. You excuse politics you like and you don't for politics you don't like. That's the end of it.
Starfield had almost no gender politics at all. You just got big mad over a pronoun choice that you had to do extra to even find. Laughable
Starfield failed because it wasn't good. It had nothing to do with the "political messaging"