and I really dislike the RNG skill checks.

I disagree, I think the skill check enhances the character building, failing them often produces more interesting outcomes than passing, and passing them can create brief moments of victory for Harry. On my first play-through I was failing shit constantly except my build was pretty good for things directly related to the investigation, so it kind of worked for an RP were Harry was a washed up mess but he had been a good detective, so his past skills were shining through his amnesia and failure.

Issues like this is why I like mods or built in cheat available. Any tedious part (Palworld breeding time....) can be shortened with mods/cheats, have to control yourself to not abuse it though.

With most games I'd agree with you, but for some reason the music and atmosphere in DE really worked for me

I really dislike the RNG skill checks

Same. That's pretty much my one complaint about the game.

I just want all the dialogue man

It helps that very, very few of the skill checks (two or three, I think) actually need to be "passed" in order to progress. Failing actually helps build the narrative, and almost never locks you out of progressing. You can play it so that you savescum in order to pass every check, but you're missing a significant amount of content that way, and the experience is arguably better if you just roll with it. The failed rolls almost always lead to something fun.