Skyrim is not a CRPG, nor DA:I.
That's your personal opinion, one NOT shared by most RPG fans.
I consider neither of those "traditional" CRPGs. Traditional CRPGs got their revival only with Kickstarter back in 2012ish.
Fair enough. You only want to focus on a very small niche subset within the cRPG genre. I don't see any justification for narrowing my focus that way. For me, an RPG is an RPG for comparative purposes, even though I also have my own preferences for certain types of RPGs over others.
Don't compare an open world, easy to play hack & slash with this linear and harder than chess DnD, where I need to spend more time thinking than moving my characters.
And don't quote your personal elitist views to me. D&D mechanics are cheesy and silly to me. Nothing complicated or difficult or deep there at all. I don't have to spend a lot of time thinking about my moves in a D&D game, so you needing to do so may be a personal thing.
