FFXI
Classes
Wrong.
You can be good at everything in all the TES games but it requires hours of grinding shit.
The only correct thing in your post is that you can become head of every guild.
You have to be pretty much a total shut-in that does nothing but read books so yes.
Creating and balancing arch-classes like warrior, mage and thief/archer is hard enough.
That and lots of classes have overlap and feel redundant. There's far more difference between a warrior and a mage compared to a knight and a crusader.
Magus is a fucking garbage class due to atrocious decisions regarding spell list and feature desin, and it only had one gimmick build that will likely not be put into the PC game without mods. Fight me.
You're missing the point by being pedantic. It's impractical in the older games, it's easy and assumed in the newer ones.
>TES lore is full of all kinds of crazy mage subclasses all of whom seem full of character and add to the immersive nature of the world
>boot up game and wander over to mage guild
>everyone is just a generic mage bitching that the locals are dumb and hate mages
>every
>damn
>game
Yes, that is how one becomes a wizard.
That's bullshit. You can lift weights while reading or spend 1 hr every 2 days exercising