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There is one fun way to play vanilla Skyrim, be a stealth archer and explore the world at your own pace and not follow the questlines at all except when the next quest marker happens to be the next place in your exploration pattern. Those two things happen to work very well for me, so I enjoy vanilla Skyrim.

But that doesnt make the fact that theres no other viable playstyle than stealth archer remotely acceptable. Or the fact that the questlines lack depth acceptable (I dont think the writing is as bad as you do, but I'm also fairly tolerant of bad writing and love CONTENT so I'm kind of just a shallow uncritical baby). And even in a game they sort of designed to be explored, most people arent going to do that and they have quest markers on your screen so obviously a lot of people are going to follow them. And while I've never done this, my understanding is that following quest markers to do the main quest kinda sucks ass because it takes away from a lot of enjoyment. (though based on the games overall popularity I guess it worked as slop for a lot of people).

Also even when the game came out I never accepted the "the game is big of course there's a ton of glitches!" bullshit lol. Fuck that. Bigger games since have not been anywhere near as broken and people working for free managed to largely fix the broken ass game for them.