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The thing is they're resetting thing by killing everything that looks like civilisation and then not allowing any progress, but to bring them back to the point where they were at they have to remove what the factions are.

The most spiteful is obviously them doing a round trip of west coast fallout locations and show them destroyed, but to me the most damaging is the NCR. The NCR were forged from the ideals that made the US the US, it is the new America for good and for ill (This in contrast to the Enclave who were the Old US, for almost entirely ill). This meant that commentary about the NCR could serve as an easy commentary on US history, it meant that the ideals of the NCR could slot into American and western conceptions of ourselves and our culture, and it meant that we could do stuff like contrast idealistic NCR believers with the jaded cynicism of manifest destiny and contrast both with other belief systems (And also with the Enclave, what the US became).
Now they serve as a literal fetish object for all that is good and pure, and that is just... nothing. There is no exploration of what the NCR was beyond a thing that was too good to exist on this sinful earth.

Yeah I think they have been going for a soft reboot while at the same time setting up this new exploration of the yet mostly unexplored Colorado. All we know about Colorado is what was in Tactics and some expository lore dumps about the presidential bunker and that that was where the cyberdogs were created. The Hangdogs and the legion are likely focal points for the next season along with the Enclave. I expect there to be a B plot with the NCR and Brotherhood following in persuit of the diode which I think the Ghoul reposessed given when Maximus and Lucy find the terminal powered down again after the Ghoul leaves.