There's a lot of great stuff here, I'm going to add morrowind but seriously, mod it, I love the game but it's definitely of its time, controls aren't terrible (a bit alien but workable) but the combat didn't age well, all dice rolls so while it looks like you should connect it's all chance. Game itself gives the player a lot of freedom of choice, tons of ways to play it too.
I've heard so too, definitely more stable. I have vanilla Morrowind pretty modded up but seems solid. Seen I heart vanilla mentioned a lot for a vanilla friendly experience, just some qol and fixes, there's some very large lists as well.