I wonder if the next Elder Scrolls shouldn't have a main quest, maybe just drop us into the world as a random nobody and let us go nuts, or let us avoid the main quest without sacrificing a lot. I know you can conceivably play like that, but the MQ stuff is still looming over your head like a cloud and how your just oh so important.

Its not.. Bethesda likes to follow some sort of path to creating their games..

You want to play an something like an Inkeeper instead of something like a Dragonborn