To be fair, I think the whole BoS/Enclave thing was just a mistake on behalf of a retarded "journalist."
Aside from that, your criticisms seem about right based on what I saw in the E3 presentation. Granted, it was only 5 minutes (seems like all the presentations were limited to 5 minutes) but the AI looked dumb, the environment was boring and VATS appeared to be pretty redundant since real-time accuracy isn't affected by weapon skill.
I'm hoping that an extended walkthrough demo reveals more of the "RPG" in the game. From what I've read, you can actually do some cool things like sneak up behind enemies and drop live grenades in their pants. Unfortunately, those cool things seem few and far between.