For quite a while now, their games have only been made "good" after significant time and effort by the modding community to fix common game-breaking and progres

For quite a while now, their games have only been made "good" after significant time and effort by the modding community to fix common game-breaking and progress-losing bugs, along with endless quality of life improvements and the fixing of console-port-related issues. "Vanilla" Bethesda games are pretty bad by reasonable standards, particularly on and shortly after launch.