Anyone else having this problem? I've done a completely mod free fresh install and still no priest in Whiterun shouting about Talos and 2 less vendors in the Riften market.

TIA

If they are on schedules, it can take 72 game hours for those to settle down post patch.

Irileth is missing for me. She doesnt come running in after i give the dragonstone to farengar stating a dragon has been seen near by.

Taari in Solitude is also missing

Id given up all hope on skyrim. Cant even start the main quest.

sometime a non-crashing bug occured in the game, and unknowingly you saved the game, and continuing it, but the bug may already have side/after-impacts.

can you try with early save game?

Yeah, I wanted to start a new game anyways, that worked