It did bother me that there was no way to confront the flooded quarry guy with what you found on his computer. It also bothered me that the Mirelurks wouldn't kill the guy, only knock him out and then go after me (but at least they didn't make him immortal). But what happened is that I found my own solution. After I let the mirelurks chase me all the way up to the sentry bot at USAF Olivia (bye bye crabbies), I parked Codsworth nearby and managed to go into the woods and piss off a Radscorpion. I pulled it all the way back to the quarry, and it had zero qualms about stinging the guy to death (that is, it stopped stinging him when he yielded, but the poison still killed him), for which I got 200 xp and completed the quest. Then I went back for Codsworth, who took out the thing all by himself ("Another bug to bash!").
So, I had to use my brain a little in order to get the desired outcome, instead of going with a predetermined path that the developers had laid out (after all, even if they had given me a diplomatic option the results still would have been something they decided for me), and I don't think games like Mass Effect or Dragon Age would have let me do that, even if they are better written and have more depth to them.
The article also failed to mention two things. One of them is Codsworth with his buzzsaw, and the other is the aforementioned giant programmable sentry bot, whom I have named Lord Fusion Death Megatron 5000. That thing survives two car explosions in a row and keeps trucking to wherever I told it to go (I have no idea where Revere is, but it's probably there now, surrounded by corpses). Here's how I got to Diamond City without firing a single bullet:
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