Enclave have power armour powered by fusion cells, energy weapons, portable miniguns and super mutants LARPing as human service members. The federals seem much closer to current tech levels.

Also why does this feel like some weird US vs Russia proxy discussion or is it a fandom thing? Like “metros bad guys are better than fallouts bad guys.”

For example, in that link posted:

However, unlike the elitist and radical enclave, the federals are focused on pragmatism and rebuilding

Nuled two stations in a post nuclear holocaust setting to show “we mean bzns” after meeting heavy resistance during a military operation.

“In the eyes of the Federals, the citizens of various ‘post-apocalyptic states’ are nothing more than separatists and criminals.”

Ok.

Both factions seem equally (il)legitimate, made up of high ranking members of the former pre-war governments but no direct continuation. They both feel the same to me. Organisations that sprung up after the death/collapse of their respective governments, trying to use any means necessary to grapple back control and somehow being unaware that their existence and the means they use are borne of the same mindset that lead to the respective world ending events in each universe.