It’s pretty obvious that once the sales for the game tanked after the initial release that Bethesda just wrote the game off and reallocated the resources to other projects. There is a good amount of potential in the setting if problems were fixed and mod tools were released but a lot of the bones of the game are just bland and uninteresting.
I’ve used a start menu alternative since I switched to 11. I get the hate for the os but it’s all just been a non issue for me.