with no empathy for or understanding of how games get made.

I don't work on the industry, but I do mess around with Godot and have fiddled with modding Skyrim and Fallout. I understand part of the limitations of Bethesda's own engine, or at least those older versions of it. I understand how often you can find yourself "fighting" the engine. Sticking with it for a game with space exploration was probably a bad idea. That decision can be easily thrown as coming from high up, "use everything in house", much like how EA forces nearly every game to use DICE's Frostbite.

But then you have stranger decisions, like "space exploration is just fast traveling to specific celestial bodies". Having fast travel is one thing, all travel being fast travel, well, it's just not fun. "Inventory interface will be like Skyrim, but slightly better" - why use some 70% of the screen to show the model of the item? Why not make a neat table with all the info exposed like the one in SkyUI mod? You could have weight, value, quantity in different columns and still have space to show the item model.

Now, Emil could've explained why some decisions were made. He didn't. So it comes out as an empty rant.