You know, one must wonder why the hell you picked this forum of all places to join - I mean, you never post in any other topic, nor do you post in any other place in the forum.
If I reall, the 2nd DLC (or perhaps it is the 1st) is going to change that and make it so you can continue to play after the main quest like fo 1/2. Going to up the max lvl as well.
Yeah.... bloody "nice" of them - charging for something that should have been in the original game from the beginning.