to me they made a game that would produce the most amount of money,

not produce the best game that they could!

You forgot spears...

Spell Creation is gone.
Disposition with NPCs is gone.
Having merchants re~charge enchanted weapons are gone.
Lock Picking spells are gone.
Athletics is gone.
Attributes are gone.
Several summon spells are gone.
Ability to kill anyone is gone.
Being able to do Alchemy anywhere is gone.
Repairing gear is gone.
The Arena is gone.
Several types of weapons are gone.
Several types of spells are gone.

Spell Creation is gone.
Disposition with NPCs is gone.
Having merchants re~charge enchanted weapons are gone.
Lock Picking spells are gone.
Athletics is gone.
Attributes are gone.
Several summon spells are gone.
Ability to kill anyone is gone.
Being able to do Alchemy anywhere is gone.
Repairing gear is gone.
The Arena is gone.
Several types of weapons are gone.
Several types of spells are gone.

Yeah i remember all that stuff...

Considering they have different voice actors saying the exact same lines, no.

Spell Creation is gone. - I miss this, but it doesn't go with Skyrim's current spell system well.
Disposition with NPCs is gone. - You mean the stupid pie chart mini game from Oblivion? That's been replaced with more meaningful persuasion dialogue topics?
Having merchants re~charge enchanted weapons are gone. - I fail to see how that's a bad thing. Just makes soul gems more useufl.
Lock Picking spells are gone. - They're not gone. There's a standing stone that gives you that ability. The spells themselves were "removed" because they literally made the lockpicking skill, perk tree and advancement useless.
Athletics is gone. - You mean the skill you increased by...running. It was useless.
Attributes are gone. - And replaced with a new perk system, which IMO is better.
Several summon spells are gone. - And replaced with different ones.
Ability to kill anyone is gone. - Which wasn't in Oblivion anyway, only in Morrowind. And with dragon attacks and radiant AI you'd cry if a dragon killed a character from the main quest.
Being able to do Alchemy anywhere is gone. - And replaced with a different system to make it less overpowered.
Repairing gear is gone. - Reasons for this were explained. The focus is now on improving equipment as opposed to "making sure it's not worse".
The Arena is gone. - The arena that didn't exist in Morrowind either. It's not got a place in Skyrim.
Several types of weapons are gone. - No more than Oblivion, it's just been condensed into two skills as opposed to...well...two different skills.
Several types of spells are gone. - In order to make magic feel more...robust.

There is a weight to your character's actions that was not present in previous games.

Like... I really don't understand removing things like the additional summon spells.

The bold was gone in Oblivion not Skyrim.

I'll argue this. The world of Skyrim is more realistic than Oblivion or Morrowind. There is a weight to your character's actions that was not present in previous games. A lot of ideas within previous games would break the game and destroy the feeling of realism. Having a character who could levitate, run like the flash, or leap incredibly high would make the game feel like unreal tournament. That isn't the game that works in this day and age.

I don't want to see players levitating, or running incredibly fast or leaping. That kind of stuff breaks gameplay, and breaks the sense of realism.

You have not even beaten skyrim apparently. your actions have no weight at all. nothing you do affects anything in the game. nothing.

You also don't understand what weight means in video games. I'm talking about physical weight that can be felt through actions like turning, running, jumping and swinging a sword.

I wouldn't say evil geniuses. I would rather call them clever businessmen.

That is kinda what i was getting at really. the bottom line. But I don't feel they were trying to be ethical when they were trying to find new and exciting ways of making the money. and the 11/11/11 deadline might have had a major factor in it as well. but i swear I have played this game before when i was playing oblivion. The same kind of thing happens. people only remember the most annoying things about these games. I have seen whole cartoons written on the idiocies of the combat system. I personally think that Bethesda actually did find some things that work in making a game like this, and so they include those things.

Which they would. Or people would complain every guard sounds the same. They can't win.

Bethesda didn't go for internet memes to make fun of their bad combat system in some backward attempt at publicity. It was laziness, a stupid deadline, and seeking profits.

Spell Creation is gone. - I miss this, but it doesn't go with Skyrim's current spell system well.
Totally disagree. Removed because it wasn't prioritized, as indicated by Todd before game release.

Disposition with NPCs is gone. - You mean the stupid pie chart mini game from Oblivion? That's been replaced with more meaningful persuasion dialogue topics?
The pie chart was horrible, but by disposition he meant that each NPC had a personal "relationship" to you, in terms of like/dislike. it was oversimplified, but better than nothing at all, IMO. In Daggerfall and IIRC Morrowind the disposition of an NPC was a combination of their personal interaction with you, and how each of their factions felt about you. This was simplified in Oblivion, and finally removed in Skyrim.

Lock Picking spells are gone. - They're not gone. There's a standing stone that gives you that ability. The spells themselves were "removed" because they literally made the lockpicking skill, perk tree and advancement useless.
BGS already made lockpicking perks and advancement useless through bad design. If lockpicking is fixed, like with a mod, then that's a reasonable argument.

Ability to kill anyone is gone. - Which wasn't in Oblivion anyway, only in Morrowind. And with dragon attacks and radiant AI you'd cry if a dragon killed a character from the main quest.
Some people want no essential NPCs and some people want very few essentials. Skyrim gave us a lot of essentials, which I think is what nobody wants.

Being able to do Alchemy anywhere is gone. - And replaced with a different system to make it less overpowered.
You're kidding here, so I'm moving on...

Repairing gear is gone. - Reasons for this were explained. The focus is now on improving equipment as opposed to "making sure it's not worse".
If this is BGS' reasoning, then it's a huge misfire, at least for anyone who wants a challenging game. Removing limits (in games known to be OP) and replacing with more win = bad design. But a lot of people thought repair was tedious, and that's why they got rid of it.

Several types of weapons are gone. - No more than Oblivion, it's just been condensed into two skills as opposed to...well...two different skills.
Several types of spells are gone. - In order to make magic feel more...robust.
He's talking items, not skills, so your weapons response doesn't make sense. The spells were removed because of a lack of prioritization (see: shouts).

What internet meme? What's wrong with the combat?

In my opinion, combat is far blander than it should have been.

As a dual wielding Assassin, I literally (if I even need to fight face to face) don't have to do anything other than spam L, R, L, R, L, R, over, and over. I don't even really need to use Power Attacks.

What internet meme? What's wrong with the combat?

You have to put a large amount of new and different things (and/or massive changes) in a game that sets it apart from previous games - otherwise people will say it's a large expansion, not a new game, and they won't pay $60.00 for an expansion most of the time. I know I wouldn't.

Are you on PC? Because Master + a few mods can mostly fix that. Otherwise, yeah, I agree that's a problem.

^Play a 2hander. It's more fun, imo. I think dw'ing is bland too, even if I recommend it to some people.

The combat is laughably bad compared to any other game in this time period. Left click, right click, left click, left click. The enemies barely react to being hit, the combat has barely changed since Morrowind.