So far all I see in your argument Chrono, is logical fallacies of a man looking at numbers and not the actual game itself.
Skyrim is an imperfect game, but don't for a second believe that Oblivion was better than Skyrim, mostly because the only reason Oblivion stayed over the water is because Mods fixed EVERYTHING.
For example: I was very disappointed in the choice for eyes. Sure I could choose something that made me look like a half-blind orc looking for blood, but it didn't have a good spectrum of choice. Besides the eyes however, I found the Character Creation to be far superior to Oblivion and gave all my needs.
I love the fact that the UI sorts everything from Items to Spells alphabetically (Which is what I would set it to anyways). I also find it to be less laggy than the Xbox 360 version of Oblivion (Compared to Skyrim Xbox 360). The only thing that slows me down in UI is the autosave feature, which I have set for every 5 minutes.
I actually find the UI to look better, as it forces me to look at the entire screen. If you don't like it, just get a mod, just like people did in Oblivion and Morrowind.
I am SO HAPPY that they got rid of those useless skills Ath/Acro, because in this game they would only serve to level up your character way to fast. So unless you want that shitty Class system back, call bethesda and tell them to de-evolve back to Oblivion, and than Oblivion to Morrowind, and so on so forth.
The Character Models are a lot better than in Oblivion. Argonians for instance actually do look like lizards instead of that lame figure we once watched in Oblivion. Kahjiit are absolutely gorgeous because they actually look like KITTIES; than we have the Elves (Bosmer, Altmer, Dunmer, and the non-playable Thalmer) These ethnicities of the Mer actually look like they belong to the Elvish Species, instead of looking like oddly faced Humans with sharp pointed ears. Another thing I like is that all the species don't have those annoying pudgy faces like they did in Oblivion, almost like they had a full mouth of bullshit all the time.
And of course Oblivion performs better at it's worst than Skyrim at it's worst. Oblivion on its lowest setting allows the computer to play it smoothly, yet look like total shit. Skyrim has the same problem since it's a god damn game but it still looks better and at this point is playable by shitty computers. My friend plays Skyrim on a laptop on Ultra settins across the board and no lag whatsoever. However you are looking at it through a Console Perspective, and I say that since I played Xbox for both Oblivion and Skyrim, I say Skyrim is by for the smoothest.