[2019] I used to play 5+ hours a day. Since the legendary "bug fix" I barely play for an hour a day or not at all. Was this the intent?

Thank you for sharing your thoughts and feedback on this, u/glorf12. We've released a hotfix today that addressed non-legendary creatures from incorrectly displaying "legendary" in their name. (Hotfix notes are here)

Partnering with that, we released an Inside The Vault article addressing these lower than ideal drop rates;

Additionally, after reading your recent feedback and monitoring legendary item drop rate data, we’ve confirmed that legendary items are still dropping at a lower than intended rate in the world following the hotfix we released on July 18. We are actively working toward a fix, but it’s important to us that we get this right. As a result, it will take a few additional days to address this issue, and we’ll be sure to let you know once we’re confident that drop-rates have risen back to pre-Patch 11 levels.

We will continue to monitor the data and look at the feedback we see here and on our official forums and social media, and will let you all know when we feel the rates are back to what they were pre-Patch 11. Thanks for being patient with us as we address this.

I think you may have me confused for someone else, I've never been on G4 and gamergate was before my time in this industry.

This doesn't address the issue of the fact that there are significantly fewer legendary spawns and items drops.

You are correct, which is why I included the paragraph that came with the Inside The Vault in my comment. They will increase, but we want to make sure we get this right so it's going a few additional days to get these to drop back to the level they were at Pre-Patch 11. The current drop rates are not permanent.

As for your comments on the Atomic shop and other bug issues, we are actively always looking at feedback and issues raised by players and raising them as well. We understand the frustration on bugs and are working every day to address these and player concerns. I wish I could comment something here that would immediately alleviate these concerns for you but these things take time, and I want to thank you for being patient with us. That being said, we have a panel at Quakecon tomorrow at 12 EDT/10CDT where we're talking about what is coming to Fallout 76 and we're going to try and fit in player questions at the end if we still have time. If you have anything you'd like to submit as a question you can post them in here.