Umm, spell creation didn't work like that. It was possible to abuse the system, but less so than the current crafting mechanics, so that's the worst argument, anyway.

Besides the fun, creativity, and the immersive feeling that you were playing an actual mage, there was one absolutely essential element of spell making: it provided an in-game mechanic for fixing bugs. Many of the spells BGS provided were useless, and spell making allowed you to create a useful version of a spell effect.

Skyrim is slightly improved in this regard. Now spells are usually useful at least for a few early levels, and then become only mostly useless. (exaggerated a bit to prove a point, but only a bit)

Shalidor's Mirror, Ulm's Juicedaw's Feather, Vivec's Kiss, Tinur's Hoptoad, Ondusi's Open Door, Erelvam's Wild Sty, Alad's Caliginy, Golanar's Eye Maze, Berevusa's Averted Eyes, Tevral's Hawkshaw, Almalexia's Grace, Sotha's Mirror, Vivec's Feast, Tranasa's Spelltrap, Vivec's Tears, Vivec's Touch, Rilm's Cure, Selyn's Gift, Balyna's Antidote, Vivec's Mercy, Rest of St. Merris, Balyna's Soothing Balm, Balyna's Efficacious Balm, Veloth's Grace, Veloth's Benison, Balyna's Perfect Balm, Baronoff's Bloody Icicle, Enemies Explode (created by the mage in the Bravil guild hall), Essence Drain (created by Mannimarco), Notorgo's Curse, Feet of Notorgo, Lord Mhas' Vengeance, Fader's Leaden Flesh, Dedres' Masterful Eye, Tevil's Peace, Didala's Knack, Daydene's Panacea, Salen's Vivication, Daerir's Blessing, Daerir's Miracle, Drathis' Soulrot, Feldram's Trepidation, Tendil's Trembling, Reynos' Beast Finder, Radrene's Spellbreaker, Alvusia's Warping, Taldam's Scorcher, Selis' Fiery Ward, Icarian Flight (created by Tarhiel), Gonar's Goad, Monden's Instigator, Illnea's Breath, Drathis' Winter Guest, Radia's Icy Mask, Uth's Hand of Heaven, Prince Ov's Brightbal, Lliros' Glowing Eye, Galm's Seal, Ekash's Lock Splitter, Sertists' Porphyry, Tousu's Abiding Beast, Tevlin's Courage, Inas' Chastening, Tranasa's Spelltwist, Fphyiggi's Gem Feeder, Tranasa's Spellmire, Reynos' Fins, Inasi's Mystic Finger, Daynar's Airy Bubble and Selyn's Mist Slippers are all either named spells or explicitly created by mages.

So much for "not lore friendly".

It doesn't seem lore friendly.

If spells can be made by anyone why are there so very few spells (compared to infinite varieties possible) for sale?

Why was that chick in Chorrol so desparate to get Finger of the Mountain if she can just make a better spell any time she wants?

Why don't the enemies ever hit you with a 100% weakness to Magic 1 second, 100% weakness to fire 1 second, and 100 fire damage 1 second spell?

Like I said before, Spells are made by people, they don't come from nothingness. Also I don't know about your entire list, are the ones that start with Vivec created by Vivec or just named after him? Anyway sure most of these mages created these spells.

However, I'm pretty sure they didn't do it by standing in front of a glorified music stand and pouring literally tons of gold into it somehow (assuming 1 septim is 1 ounce of gold)

I'll get slammed by at least two specific indivisuals for this, but I say, forget spellmaking for now.

I'd rather have them fix what Skyrim already, so that the Magic is useful, interesting and fun in and of itself. It's got potential, it just lacks veriety with regards to spell effects. That, and magic doesn't scale properly so it stays useful at later levels
I think spellmaking is a great thing to have, but it shouldn't be the only reason that magic is useful or fun to use, like it was in the last two titles. If bethesda can make a magic system that can stand on its own two feet without Spellmaking, add it in(or else). It shouldn't be the only good thing about magic

If they were to add spellmaking they would need to do something about the easily obtainable 100% spell cost reduction.

It needs to get added in and not forgotten it gave us options as mages it improves the entire system.

They do need to fix Skyrim yes, the bugs. Then they can add is a useful interesting system with the old spells we lost alongside spell creation, then magic would be a lot more fun. This magic system seems just like a foundation to me just the start of a system, the new effects have potential with spell creation. No but it can be the best thing thing not the only good thing, I would hardly call a lot of the magic that we have had in the history of this series terrible.

It sounds like to you want to see the act like we do with alchemy and smithing and so in Skyrim: if it was in the game we probably could.

I'm referring to base spells, not custom ones. I think that a game should stand on the content it gives us, not the content it lets us make ourselves. I would rather have a magic system that can stand on its own merits WITHOUT requiring its users to create their own spells. Options are cool, yes. But I've always believed that we should have plenty of options that are also well-made options. I don't care how many flavors of ice cream I'm offered if they all run more than the Olympic marathon team as soon as I try to enjoy it. There is a middle ground, and that's what I want to see

I do want to see spellmaking. But I want to see a better magic system first. Skyrim has the start of a great new system, but it has a LOT of room for improvement. Fix that first, then we can see about spellmaking

I'll get slammed by at least two specific indivisuals for this, but I say, forget spellmaking for now.

I'd rather have them fix what Skyrim already has, so that the Magic system is useful, interesting and fun in and of itself. It's got potential, it just lacks veriety with regards to spell effects. That, and magic doesn't scale properly so it stays useful at later levels
I think spellmaking is a great thing to have, but it shouldn't be the only reason that magic is useful or fun to use, like it was in the last two titles. If bethesda can make a magic system that can stand on its own two feet without Spellmaking, add it in(or else I will be angry). It shouldn't be the only good thing about magic

I do want to see spellmaking. But I want to see a better magic system first. Skyrim has the start of a great new system, but it has a LOT of room for improvement. Fix that first, then we can see about spellmaking

I'm referring to base spells, not custom ones. I think that a game should stand on the content it gives us, not the content it lets us make ourselves. I would rather have a magic system that can stand on its own merits WITHOUT requiring its users to create their own spells. Options are cool, yes. But I've always believed that we should have plenty of options that are also well-made options. I don't care how many flavors of ice cream I'm offered if they all run more than the Olympic marathon team as soon as I try to enjoy it. There is a middle ground, and that's what I want to see

I do want to see spellmaking. But I want to see a better magic system first. Skyrim has the start of a great new system, but it has a LOT of room for improvement. Fix that first, then we can see about spellmaking

Not really

Making spells by giving gold to nobody in particular is just a flawed concept in general. Remember how the apprentice in the mages college was making her spell, testing and retesting, research and refining, etc.

if spellcrafting is put in, you don't need to balance magic because it will solve itself.

A tangible representation of the Arcane, through study, philosophy, Ethos, and scientific logic. Not lore friendly? Blasphemy. The Spell Making Altar represented spell creation and manipulating the Magicka of Mundus on an intelligent level. Spell Creation allowed outside the box thinking, personal customization above and beyond niche archetypes, new strategies, play-styles and a feeling of corporeal accomplishment, creatively. Pretty much no reason to get rid of it.

Spellmaking did make spell sellers redundant, and did create a problem with balance. But more importantly than either of these factors, it was FUN.

Sadly these days FUN takes the back seat.

Seems like, you ignored the links about where magic came from.

Studying an arcane text would be good yes, then you could manipulate the magical energies within great. Your enchanting skill should determine what and how powerful your enchantment is, I think that is agreeable.

It did not coincide with their Dual-Casting system.
It did not coincide with their Perk system.

Could you get it to work with these? Yes, but my guess is they painted themselves into a corner and could not easily do this so Spell Crafting was not implemented.

Balanced combat could potentially add more fun than spellmaking. However, it's clear in Skyrim that either balancing combat wasn't one of their priorities at all, or they just are just incredibly bad at it.

IMO they should either give up on trying balance things and bring back overpowered fun stuff like levitation, mark/recall, etc. etc. back in TES VI, or actually put some serious effort into balance.

Yeah, they ruined the magic system with a gimmick and pretty graphics and lost the variety, customising and RP potential that was SC. If mods can make SC viable, which Im sure they will, then Beth should have been able to as well.

I agree but does this surprise you? Games now are all this way. New features are not thought through - at all. The dual casting system is a great example. It absolutely svcks and is incredibly limiting. The Perk system does not make me feel specialized but rather confined since without Perks things scale so dismally you basically shouldn't even have it in the game.

I didn't ignore them, but I also didn't see anything about turning gold into magical power, so I don't know what that has to do with the links you provided.

Things have to be abstracted in video games? You don't say. You know, you can't make leather armor by banging a hammer against an anvil either, yet that is exactly what you do in Skyrim.

It did not coincide with their Dual-Casting system.
It did not coincide with their Perk system.

Could you get it to work with these? Yes, but my guess is they painted themselves into a corner and could not easily do this so Spell Crafting was not implemented.