I gave in and tried Morrowind and I'm somewhat disappointed.

My main issue is with Fargoth and his ring quest. The ring itself possesses a trivial Restore Health 1-5 points effect that any neurologically intact individual would immediately recognize as functionally worthless within the game's statistical framework.

The spatial positioning elements compound these scientific failures. The quest giver (Fargoth) is placed directly on the path from the Census and Excise Office to the town center, creating an unavoidable social interaction node that violates fundamental principles of player agency. This forced encounter design ignores well-established cognitive load theory by introducing a secondary objective during the critical orientation phase when players are attempting to consolidate spatial mapping of the environment. The developers positioned this distraction at precisely the moment when hippocampal place cell formation is most crucial.