[2022] VATS and melee.. super buggy?

Just rolled a vamp 50% crit damage 40% less damage while power attacking auto axe (my first roll, I’ll probably leave it at that as I don’t play a melee build). I tried using it in VATS a bit, here’s a few thing I noticed. A lot of the time the crit meter doesn’t move at all (sometimes it works fine though), and then every once in a while the weapon does no damage at all in while in VATS? Also seems like sometimes the weapon won’t allow me to spin up again if I get hit, until I exit and re enter VATS.