Can we get an official answer regarding A-Life? I am very confused..

So, I don't know if my simple mind can't comprehend it but so far my experience is:

• I clear bandits at some buildings, later I come back to the same area and see some loners chilling there. So far looks good but was it random? Did the world react to my actions, acknowledged that I have killed the bandits there and now loners took over that spot, or was it totally random spawn when I got close to the same area?

• Later in the game, I take a side quest from a NPC inside a building. I get out of the building, suddenly hear dogs inside, get in, clean the place, and after that when I check the room NPC was inside, he is dead on the ground, killed by dogs. Right, this is cool also but where tf did dogs come from?

• I reload a save couple of times to test stuff and observe that bandits 30-40m away spawning randomly on different numbers and gear.

• I killed the wards on the first village and nobody reacted? lol?

• All the time, mutants/npcs are spawning behind me from the same road I came from. wtf?

So, is there an A-Life in this game? Does it really exist, or everything is random?

On my own experience, I think there is A-Life but it is massively downgraded and mixed with random events.

Im 6 hours into the game btw, but more I play, it gets more frustrating. A-life in OGs and mods was one of the main reasons people kept playing for all these years. I think we need an explanation from someone official or who is smarter than me.