You also have options that change depending on your skills and progress.
You can choose to bribe, persuade, manipulate, flex your muscles, or do them a favor. Sometimes you can choose to kill them if they're not cooperating. If a task is related to one of your skills, you can show off your knowledge.
The whole no choice paradigm was much more true for FO4 than for Starfield.
It's safe until someone oopsies the repos and mislabels the i386 packages as x64.
Ubuntu did this a few months back. I spent hours trying to fix it afterwards. Seems they got it fixed decently quick so it was likely just bad timing on my part.
On the flip side, there is VBA which practically enforces bad practices.