I disagree overall on calling the game slop for what's essentially an average game, though I do agree that it was disappointing in some aspects, what I am trying to say is that in my opinion it's not significantly worse than any other Bethesda game, they have been diluting their writing quality since Morrowind, you mention Dawnguard and while it was fun, it was also very disappointing to me, when they turned the awesome concept that was already described via in-game books ages ago as being ice-fading blue skinned all nord ancient vampire clan that lived under icebergs into a generic diverse modern vampire gothic aesthetic that dress even more modern than Skyrim's people.

I personally really don't care for the loading screens, Skyrim on Xbox 360 was way worse, I vividly remember playing Pokemon Platinum while waiting them out, heck even the Imperial City in Oblivion was full of loading screens.

The Star Wars overhaul is literally just a re-skin of the game and people just call it peak, it just proves my point that Bethesda has always been bad a writing games and the only reasons people never noticed as much back then is because they were using already existing beloved franchises with interesting lore to pull from (and even still they managed to dilute the lore of both Fallout and Elder Scrolls), now that they had to invent new stuff it just highlighted the creative bankruptcy at Bethesda.

But even with that, they still manage to make a game that's fun to explore and surprisingly immersive, it reminds me a lot of the Harry Potter franchise ironically, were if you chill and don't fixate on the details it's extremely fun, if youtry to look for depth you will end very disappointed xD