Let’s not forget the whole vehicles modification/creation system which allows you to make effectively tanks from scraps made by smashing lampposts and ovens. And you can even drive those multi-ton monsters (on roads) using only the wheels from office chairs!
install a mod then. there are plenty of them out there to have more “fun”, some of which are already pre-installed like safe autodocs and classic zombies. however without challenge you may quickly notice your accomplishments feel hollow and unworthy
without uncompromising harshness you’re kind of missing the entire point of the game if you don’t adjust to the learning curve. the fun of games like cdda and dwarf fortress is the feeling of Nietzschean euphoria after you overcome the challenges of the unforgiving wasteland and become the ubermench