I thought Bioware was RIP, not that I was happy of it, but beleived it.
I enjoyed MEA but the Skyrim cloning aspects was average to bad:
- Exploration: The vehicle is tedious, once more, it can be fun rush through, but exploration with vehicle is weak once more, horses ain't better. The only MEA area very good to explore was the area without vehicle.
- Combat in wide outdoor: Those random combats to vaguely fill the huge world was total boredom, very weird when there's plenty combats in structured areas that are very good and the combat system is very good.
- Quests finding through the world, a few well done with some exploration tricks, but otherwise overall a failure to fill the world well.
Otherwise, great combats, good main story, many good quests (I don't see the reason of the complain here, it's no DAI), companions quite better done and developed than what do other dev.
Improve it? Gave up try clone Skyrim, go back to the missions blueprint and don't bother struggle fill a huge world, find good designs to give more density to space travel and exploration. But my best suggestion of improvement would be to give up and go back to DA series, but again not try do some Skyrim cloning, and please stop with DAI crap combats, go back to something closer to DAO/DA2 combats.