User blog comment:Draevan13/The streamlining of the Elder Scrolls series, and some Skyrim flaws./@comment-5469467-20121111055008

It's a shame that even though the series continues to grow and improve, some really good features are being dumped. They should bring back a few skills, namely athletics and acrobatics (maybe combined) as well as unarmed, unarmored and maybe even medium armor. This is because there is no real incentive to use unarmed combat in Skyrim, aside from the Khajiit racial bonus, a pair of enchanted gloves, a heavy armor perk and pure novelty. Unarmored has a single multi-tier perk in the alteration skill tree, while medium armor just doesn't exist anymore.

The quests don't seem to hold up much better. After going back and playing Oblivion and Morrowind, it becomes apparent how sophisticated most guild quests are compared to Skyrim. The questlines could have been a bit more complex (not to mention longer), and actually require you to fulfil some requirements of the guild. I suspect a warrior can easily become arch-mage without anyone noticing, or even a thief take over the Companions.

Hopefully Bethesda will stop streamlining (I wouldn't say dumbing down) the skills and quests, not to mention magic, and perhaps even start bringing things back while introducing new stuff as well.