Man i was there for the older elder scrolls games. Same exact thing minus the internet hype because there was no internet. But they always hyped their games beyond anything reasonable and the end product was a buggy mess. They called daggerfall “buggerfall” back in the day for a reason.
It is now 30 years of continuous lies and people are still believing it.
Before they showed it people absolutely where expecting something else than TES/Fallout in space. But as soon as they showed it, it was obvious it is just another typical bethesda RPG. Don’t get me wrong, a lot of people seem to love that. But the expectation was certainly something else after they announced it.
He said that as a joke while announcing the BETA of Fallout 76. And after the beta they announced they would fix everything, which they obvioulsy didn’t.