Well that is your opinion.
If you think freedom equates to the ability of creating spells and/or equipment that can make any quest or objective a cakewalk then by all means, enjoy your dumbed down gaming experience.

Edit: Like I said on my previous post; unless they severely fix the spellmaking system, I would rather they don't include it in this or any future TES game.

You heard it here first. Choice is the new dumbed down.

Are people really that easily fooled by a flamethrower? I mean, what's going on here.
In previous games, we had on target, on touch and on self. Now we have on target, on ground and 'stream'. And those are just for destruction spells. So we went from 3 different types to ... 3. Woopdie-effing-doo.
Same with dual-wielding. Great, now you can use 2 spells without having to switch / use hotkeys! Except all skills now only have one effect, so overall you lose out on effects to use.

I'd take spellmaking over dualwielding flamethrowers any day.