Why does no one like using the minute men? I have artillery in all my settlements. If the enemy is outside, they're dead. Honestly the minutemen are the only faction I could really connect to and care about. The railroad think they're better because they're the synths, the BoS think they're high and mighty and their word is law in this part of the world where they were uninvited and honestly unwelcomed. and the institute is a bunch of lab snobs who think everyone above ground is a worthless excuse for humanity. but like, the minute men just wanna help. They wanna help get rid of the raiders and ghouls and try to make the wasteland a little safer.
Personally, building settlements is my least favorite part of the game (mostly because of how the game handles it, actually) and the time it takes to set up enough settlements for artillery to be viable and wait around for the strike after throwing a smoke grenade is much less enjoyable than just taking the enemies down myself
I'm not exactly sure what you mean by "think they're better because they're the synths" regarding the Railroad because only one member is a known synth, and I definitely haven't gotten any elitist vibes from the Railroad in the slightest
They're both good factions trying to make things better, just for different beings, but I think what it all comes down to is that the Minutemen have the dullest questline, if you can even call the same 4 quests ad infinitum with different starting locations and destinations a questline