they seem to be on 6 year development schedule for their single player games
Their last 23 all since Skyrim games turned out to be turds or uninteresting by premise, so it's right fucking time to go back to their main money maker to probably fuck it too. But they fucking need to make it, be it to continue the win or to drive it into ground, the limbo on ES is one of the worst things ever in gaming imo.
i would rather it release later if they actually managed to unfuck the writing and engine though
First, they won't, it's bethesda. Starfield cleraly demonstrate that the can take all the time in universe and not improve basically anything. Also, that entire "release it later so it can be polished" is nonsense, entire game industry proven it time and time again.