User blog comment:Madman97/You know what really grinds my Wabbajack's? S3E1: I can't kill these guys/@comment-25109952-20131025182427/@comment-1600847-20131104023518

OR,

Bethesda was just lazy and didn't feel like going over every "essential" character and setting them as protected instead. People always assume it's some dark and nefarious conspiracy by casual gamers, but ssssoooooo many things in Skyrim are simply due to Bethesda being lazy. Not the "SKYRIM CASUAL GAMER CONSPIRACY!!!1!!1!!!".