User blog comment:Draevan13/The streamlining of the Elder Scrolls series, and some Skyrim flaws./@comment-3492791-20121112055543

You keep saying that "It's too complicated!" isn't an excuse but that is exactly the cause.

Most people don't like things to be hard, so in the interest of expanding the audience the series has been getting progressively less complicated. Armor and weapon sub-categories are being merged, combat is becoming much simpler, the list of skills is becoming smaller, and magic is losing spells and even entire schools of magic. All in the interest of making the game easier to play for the everygamer. That's what it's all about.

Something I noticed in Skyrim is that alot of the commitment has been removed. No classes, no birthsigns, little to no functional difference in races.

Skyrim was said to be designed for consoles, and it really shows to a degree.