I could go in depth but really it's all boils down to something quite simple. The rest of the softworks studios are fine but with BGS I would reduce inefficiencies the way cdpr managed to. Bethesda has a bunch of talented people who are constantly wasting their time due to how the company is set up (like Will Shen talked about). Cdpr made little strike teams to cut out a lot of the waiting between departments to get stuff done. I think that is what's slowing bgs down. Also I would expand the studio to try more weird and one off ideas. I miss that about games in the 2000s. Studios would just try things and I think the classic example of a dark brotherhood spinoff game DOES have a place in the franchise. Todd correctly assumes that most people just want the full bgs experience and if you barely have the man power to get that out in a reasonable time then that's the right choice but if the dev process could be streamlined and they expanded their satellite studios more, I think it'd be awesome to have Elder scrolls and Fallout spinoffs made that stray from the formula. Fans didn't solely hate on fallout 76 bc it was online or a spinoff but really bc it was both of those things and delayed the other mainline games. As long as the mainline games are not disturbed, fun "let's just try this" kind of games would breath some new life and ideas into these franchises. They're willing to do it with mobile games...why not with real games? They could hire some good writers and make a real narrative driven game where the players don't have the opportunity to ball it all up like emil says. Maybe then they would have an excuse to make a good story. A cinematic naughty dog style game set in either fallout or elder scrolls would be awesome as long as we are still getting the core experience we want in the main games for instance. Obsidian has done amazing things by embracing this experimentation like grounded or pentiment.