It's more or less exactly what I expected at this point. 90% of effort/resources into adding more quests and locations, 10% into brushing up surface-level graph

It's more or less exactly what I expected at this point. 90% of effort/resources into adding more quests and locations, 10% into brushing up surface-level graphics stuff and jiggling the minigames a bit, 0% into "fundamentals" like core gameplay and artistic polish. The only thing Bethesda has been ambitious about this past decade is content volume.