So Skyrim was groundbreaking and fun and the mod scene makes it even better and that's great and it was a good game.

If I was going to make it better, I'd build it a little more like Witcher 3. Comparably open world, but what they did was they said "Know what, we're paying professional writers to write professionally, let's make it so that matters." I feel like Witcher 3 gave you some crayons and said "Color in the lines," and the result couldn't fail to be a pretty compelling picture; where Skyrim gave you some wax and some dye and a blank canvas and said "Good luck, maybe smear that into that, and rub it on that, and i dunno kinda looks like a dragon a little?" 

There's value to that. I enjoyed doing that. But I enjoyed Witcher more.