User blog comment:Madman97/You know what really grinds my Wabbajack's? S3E1: I can't kill these guys/@comment-25109952-20131025182427/@comment-1600847-20131027131320

Except then the game world starts to feel bland and un-lifelike as you see most characters just standing there, not doing anything, Not eating, sleeping or moving in any way.

I say it's better to do what Oblivion did: characters become killable after quests they're involved in are finished. Sure, a few of them glitched and never lost their "essential" status, but most did.