Worthplaying: I'll get this out of the way: Skyrim's main story didn't take me long to complete. At most, it took around six hours to get through it. The caveat is that it was after I had spent a bunch of hours on tasks outside of it.
Many of the quests aren't related to the main story, such as rising up to the top of the College of Winterhold or becoming the best thief in the land, but they can easily take just as long as the main story (or longer!) and have as much detail. You can spend countless hours doing random stuff in Skyrim without even starting on the main quest.
The developers of Lordbound increased the scope as they became more familiar with the Creation Kit and got inspired by the original Skyrim.
Created by Bethesda Softworks, The Elder Scrolls is hailed as one of the most groundbreaking RPG franchises.
13 years after Skyrim's release, Bethesda is updating the game again. At this point, unfortunately, it's doing more harm than good.
As mentioned here, I hate that these updates are killing the mods. It took forever to get my crap ton of VR mods set up perfectly... now it's broken again.