
Setting up a recruitment beacon and maybe a turret or two at all the locations you get sent to help by the Minutemen/Railroad takes like a second total, so it's not like it's super taxing.

If you are the home building type this stuff will go to building more homes/decorations, but if not, you can use it to mod all your weapons/armor for basically nothing. If you have enough settlements doing it, you basically end up sitting on a pile of hundreds of all item types. Settlers can be assigned to scavenge for you. but why? if it's just a closed loop with no impact on any other system in the game, why does it exist? Unless there's actual value in having more settlers, it just seems like a pointless feature. Too many attacks lower settler happiness and make it harder to recruit more settlers I guess. The only real consequence seems to be happiness.
