Due to the insane amount of damage most enemies deal (a bandit chief with a two handed weapons does more damage than any dragon even on the easiest setting) ive not been confident enough in my character or their equipment to go any further than the free roaming you do after the Greybeards summon you.
They called...I bought the house in Whiterun...and ive been training/exploring ever since.
Then other games came out and ive been too busy with them to go back to Sykrim.
Blame me all you want (if it helps you avoid the heartbreaking truth that Skyrim aint all that you hoped) but this never happened with any of the other TES games!
This is the first ive just "wandered off" from.
Fixable?
I dont know!
Most of the problems are rooted in the very core of the design...not simple tweaks!
You'd have to overhaul the entire center of the game and with all the yes-men theyre counting (and all the dissent theyre ignoring) making it look like god in game form theyre not going to put in such effort for so little return.
So there we are!