You're still on timeline 2. We split in timeline theta ages ago.
Achieving bland experienced isn't embraced by the public for Bethesda anymore. Everybody rags on them including the formerly paid journalists.
They still sold pretty big numbers through starfield.
There are many many many games with good turn based combat. We're 3 decades in to games with good turn based combat. Naturally people that don't like turn based fights will never warm into them, but turn-based combat isn't bad because it's turn based. Turn based combat
can be bad when it's designed poorly.