I think I broke him everyone.
He's now entirely supporting my argument. What the fuck just happened. Like no I agree, Morrowind was a downgrade, it was decline, So is Fallout 3. You've completely rejected your original point which is that "Casualization is good because Muh Sales and Normies".
Yes we all know Morrowind was the turning point but it still has elements of what its original vision was. Todd had very little to do with the ground work on Morrowind, the entire project was a handoff to him which rather than adding to it he downsized. That still doesn't stop those smaller components being good, but these were eventually fleeting memories of what was and the true decline would begin once Todd had to make shit up on his own instead of cutting down someone elses work.
Was Morrowind disappointing. Damn right. Its a hilariously fucked game, look at how unbalanced as shit the Balmora economy is, you start leveling in Alchemy in Balmora and you can already max out your character's money and skills- that is STUPID design, but there's aspects of its lore that work well, it has a lot of elements that are still very much from Daggerfall's design philosophies but they're significantly reduced compared to its original vision (all Todd's doing there). Yeah its massive decline but there are far far far far FAR worse examples that Bethesda has put out.
Edit. Lol he deleted his post.