Morrowind tier of spell brokenness is actually super fun IMO. I've never understood the people who complain about how exploitable it is. Like. Don't exploit it if that's not your style. Why does the game gotta keep you contained?

I feel like that's mostly a matter of expectations. Most video games encourage min-maxxing, so when players first experience Morrowind, they'll often start looting all the houses and buy the most powerful equipment and spells, which ruins their own fun.

In a way, I definitely see it at the core of a gamedev's job to prevent players from ruining their own fun. That happens much more often than one would think.

But in a way, you can't win 'em all and Morrowind not preventing that, gives it lots of freedoms and playstyle choices which you don't get in other games.