Cinematics can add a lot, if properly used. After replaying early access multiple times, I feel they need to add a properly working skip function in settings, for those who already watched it and want to skip, one that still allows to make the choices where there's any.

Also the one liner cinematic must go away, if I start attacking instead talking. So many times I sneak behind using stealth, cast a spell (Sleep for example) and the cinematic just reveals me, cast prevented and spell slot used up, while the NPC just says a pointless one liner of "so you want to fight" and I must click on something like "OK", that's all is in there.

I wish there was more far dialogue, far deeper writing option and far more choices, instead having less but voiced and with plenty of cinematics. Both would be great, but more expensive and time consuming as well, so I would pick a deep and rich story over this, but isn't up to us to decide, and it's already too late.