Agreed. In video games, "innovation" quickly becomes "niche". Microsoft actually has a wider variety of games and genres represented on the Xbox, many highly praised, but frequently gets lambasted for having no games because the the overwhelming majority of players aren't actually interested in them. Sony on the other hand is dominating, and yet its biggest titles are all somewhat similar to each other and none of them really do anything new or interesting, they simply have a lot of polish.

Spot on. I want Elder Scrolls 6 to basically be Skyrim in a stunning new location, with better graphics.

Ditto for Forza Horizon 6 and the next installment of The Witcher.

the morrowind fans are turning in their graves

Well it got dumbed down and casualized. Don't even get me started what they did to Fallout...

To be honest, I like my RPGs dumb and casual. Real life uses enough of my brain power and I’m trying to escape.

If past history is any indication, TES6 will be to Skyrim fans what Skyrim was to Oblivion fans which was what Oblivion was to Morrowind fans. Daggerfall fans are split about Morrowind though and i'm not sure there are any Arena fans.