I fell off the Bethesda train around Oblivion. They peaked with Morrowind and it has been downhill since.

I’ve come to prefer waiting. When a new game comes out, what I tend to see from the scene is the initial release, then a few updates/patches, a lull where updates/patches are missed (unless it’s pretty popular), and eventually a rerelease with the now final updated version.

Waiting for the last means no figuring out why cracks don’t work, wrestling with weird performance issues, etc.