JakobFel
As long as it still feels like TES and as long as it's not even as hard as Elden Ring (which, as I hear, is supposedly the "easiest" FromSoft game but is still too challenging), I'm open to trying it. In general, I wish they'd just give us Skyrim's combat with some tweaks; it's the best combat in the series, in my opinion.
The problem is the style, not just the difficulty. I don't like the whole timed parry system. It's alright if it's akin to Witcher 3 where the blocks are timed but not impossibly so, and where you're given other means of fighting than parry-strike-repeat... Even then though, as much as I love that game, I like TES combat. Its simplicity makes it grounded and its feel is still somewhat rooted in the dungeon crawlers that made TES what it is.
I'll never understand the hate, it feels to me like the hate comes from outsiders who weren't long-term fans and what the series to be what it's not.