User blog comment:Madman97/You know what really grinds my Wabbajack's? S3E1: I can't kill these guys/@comment-25109952-20131025182427/@comment-1600847-20131107053645

Oh I agree, some features were dumbed down for the casual crowd. The removal of attributes and the insulting easiness of puzzles, there's no excuse for those two. But I disagree when it comes to essential NPCs. There are other explanations for many of Skyrim's changes.

I'm not saying this is irrefutable fact, obviously.