Yea no, being told where you need to go is east when infact it's west? Not good. Random and arbitrary difficulty spikes(Oh hey look random highway bandit, sneak sneak sneak *backstab* bandits health bar moves two pixels and you get one shotted... Plus the entirely identical enemies of stupid difficulty changes, Orc A looks exactly like Orc B but oOrc B has 4 times the health for no good reason ) with nothing approaching an advancement curve? Not good. That dumb fuck hyperlink wiki convo system where everyone spouts the same thing at you? Not good. That clusterfuck of a journal? Soooo not good.
None of that is difficulty, it's poor game design and terrible and arbitrary level checks.
The lack of directions in morrowind doesn't seem bad now because you know where shit is and the rose covered glasses do their thing. I lost actual hours I could have been having fun following shitty directions. Remember that lady who wants you to hunt down mudcrabs? THAT was fun wasn't it. Yea the quest marker isn't all that realistic but so is the lack of anatomical correctness for the horses and I can happily deal with both of those breaks in reality in lieu of the other options.
And TES being TES, there are mods available to fix that for you. Yes that includes a mod to make horses anatomically correct and If you're stupid enough to fact check me on that, brain beach is beneath the sink over thataway. >_>
Also the books and journals? Skyrim has something in the neighbourhood of a thousand of them giving you everything from lore, to stuff detailing previous games, to stuff about major characters, to pure fluff about minor ones (The letter you can pickpocket off Jon Battle-Born is a favorite of mine)