I have mixed feelings about this. We shouldn't dismiss it when Skyrim comes with mediocre/missing game elements just because it's easy for modders to improve/add them. It's also not really fair to the console users.

On the other hand if they get all the things right that we can't do much about (sense of culture, a good main story, decent AI) that would be great.

Give as much complexity as possible within the construction tools even if they are not fully utilised within the vanilla game... modders im sure can find a use for them and make the game last much longer

You made your choice for gaming platform, I have made mine. Yours is easier to use and unless your a really into Bethesdas games I can see not wanting the pc version over the console version. OB had better graphics on XBOX unless you had a good rig and adding mods can be a pain and take time. If you play alot of games, you will get plenty of game time out of Skyrim or any Beth game, so why no need for mods. I on the other hand, am still gaming because of Bethesda, my upgrades and buying habits are all based around there games. Because I don't play alot of other games, I want to get the most out of my fav games(Beths). And I would love for console users to have mods and even better be able to make them(then there would be even more mods to choose from and an even better game for me).

I don't me to demean any console user, I am only asking if people think along the lines I do and I referred my question to pc users as I don't want to offend console users.

I want that of course but there is only so much time for development, so I stuff like radiant AI,Story,physics,etc should be the focus not 20 guilds,etc. For me at least.