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See, this is what I'm talking about. We have entire generations of people parroting this nonsense because they started with Morrowind and never actually played Daggerfall. It's incredibly sad.
'I'm idolizing my childhood so you must be too' is not productive, to put it lightly. Daggerfall has a comically large empty world full of nearly-identical comically large empty towns. It sends you to dungeons that are hideously complex, which is a nice change of pace, but not exactly great to play through. Dialog is a lot more freeform, for better and for worse, and I could at least allow that dialog gets streamlined more harshly in every game.
Look: Daggerfall was ambitious. Its reach exceeded its grasp, by a lot - but it fuckin' tried. That's admirable, and something to strive for now that knowledge and technology have advanced so far. But it doesn't make a jank relic with sink-or-swim gameplay the bestest thing evar. It certainly doesn't make the homogeneous medieval aesthetic have more personality than mushroom castles, meteorite prisons, and a crab-dome city.
I didn't start with Morrowind but Oblivion so you can't blame nostalgia for my opinion, and I have spent around 50-100h on Daggerfall. Now that your point is invalid, do you want to try something else?