Sabotage?
Ha, that's a good one. Bethesda has been slowly trending towards this crap for years starting with paid mods to the creation club. It also doesn't help that the entire pitch for Fallout 76 indicated that the game would end up the way it is.
One company ****ing up royally because of one department is bad, but this is literally an entire company ****ing up. The marketing, programming, website, designers; I mean if you get sales to **** up then you have a full house.