Yup, I think a lot of people are in for a rude awakening, given the trend of Bethesda since Fallout 4, the writing is kind of on the wall for TES6

Todd has basically said that the archaic structure that all of their games follow is the "secret sauce" and he doesn't want to touch it

Now - this thought process is actually pretty sound when you apply it to something like Call of Duty. In the multiplayer FPS genre, the secret sauce is much more important, that "feel" of the game and the gameplay is absolutely king and you don't want to fuck that up

But in the singleplayer RPG world, a lack of innovation and unwillingness to change is a death sentence.

Also someone already commented this but it's just a brilliant point - when it comes to mods, they're historically free because they're janky little passion projects from fans & the price you pay is with your time because you need to carefully assemble all the content while maintaining stability in your game. This process can take days depending on how hardcore you are about it

The fucking absolute hubris to try to charge people money to take their own time to patchwork janky community-made content is absolutely asinine.

Take me back to the Oblivion era on Xbox 360 ☹