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The problem is that Bethesda games are never fun at any point, yet they have a reputation for being so good that people spend thousands of hours on them and consider them the greatest games ever made. Bethesda games are wearing several layers of armor, and to criticize them in good faith you have to break through each layer, starting from the outside.
Your exact response, by the way, is the second layer of armor. First you have to get through the first layer (of course this game is fun, people play it for thousands of hours!), then you have to get through the second layer (of course its not fun if you play a thousand hours). You may note that the layers of armor defend against criticism in contradictory ways, just like real layered armor defends against e.g. blunt trauma and slicing. Then there's four or five more layers to go before you can successfully strike at the soft flesh of the Bethesdipshit. It's an ordeal nobody has ever successfully managed, so the games continue to have fans.
