Yeah....believe me. You play a LOT more being single. Unless you are lucky enough to land a girlfriend who is as much a gamer as you are.
Well I have a wife that is dedicated to the old school paradigm of being the matron of the house and doing all the cooking / cleaning while I take care of the yard work and bring in more income, so I actually play more now than when I was single. I'm sure children will change that, but not all (hardly any) generalizations are true... just go find Mrs. Right!
Also as to the OP topic, yes I love this game (120 hours) and Bethesda. I'm an old school DOS gamer that fell in love with Daggerfall and while I miss some of the headier and deeper aspects of the series, I love what they have done with the action packed combat and the graphics over the years... I see it as a trade off.
As someone pointed out in another thread, graphic are getting close to peaking right now and until we get full VR matrix style they aren't going to get that much better anymore. So we might see a return to deeper gameplay once updating the graphics isn't as important.
I honestly think the reason you see so much negativity about this game is because TES has a legendary status and its fans have such high expectations that its almost impossible not to be let down with each new game... but that is a compliment to TES.