I dare not estimate the minutes (hours?) of my life I've wasted while my Skyrim character hit the ground with a pickaxe or chopped some wood. Many games suffer

I dare not estimate the minutes (hours?) of my life I've wasted while my Skyrim character hit the ground with a pickaxe or chopped some wood. Many games suffer from additional realism. A magic space gun that mines resources sounds just fine for a video game world.