I know what aesthetics means lol Yes Skyrim isn't extremely pleasing to the eye but it's so much more than that. The gameplay and the content in the game is so vast the aesthetics don't even matter. It's so damn immersive, before you know it it's 5am in the morning you've ignored all your calls and not done any homework.
You feel like you're a part of that world. The graphics isn't even that great they toned it down quite a bit to make room for more content and gameplay options. Also the the gameplay has imroved vastly moving, jumping, fighting is alot more fluid and nowhere near as robotic as Oblivion or Morrowind. I'm just saying give it a chance because you're missing out dude.