In prior Bethesda, if I'm remembering correctly, I may get hints something is located in a house or location but I then had to find it (and sometimes did not). In this game there is a marker right over what I need to find in the location I've been directed to, in other words there is no way I cannot find it! I actually hate this, it makes me feel like I am only walking through a game where the biggest thing I have to do is move the WASD keys to get to the prize. Anyone else find this disappointing? I've run into this is other games and, candidly, eventually just stopped playing them as there seemed no challenge.

Isn't there an option to turn them off?

There is an option to turn off the floating markers in the world, but no option to turn off the one on the compass (at least that I could find).

I hope someone does a mod like the one for Skyrim that stripped everything off the compass except for NESW.