The pessimist in me believes that Starfield, and the Oblivion remaster, are testing probes to see how their community/customers will accept big changes to bethesda-style games.

Starfield testing if gamers will accept the abandoning of Bethesda hand crafted worlds with lots of detail and hidden little unmarked interest points, and replacing it with low effort, low cost random generation.

Oblivion Remaster an attempt to test if gamers will accept Bethesda abandoning modding, since Oblivion:Remastered does not support mods (but players/modders still found a way to force them, only because everything but the graphics is still on the old, original engine)

and I think both of these should be ringing major alarmbells for what they are planning with TESVI