Believe it or not, I have never put much time into Skyrim until recently. I got my first PC after playing XBox for years and bought all the DLCs outright before starting the game.
At one point I got to thinking, “this is a really long, drawn out questline I’m on”. It didn’t occur to me until the boss fight that I was about to complete the Dragonborn DLC and was extraordinarily disappointed that I didn’t make a point to slow down and enjoy it more. Has this ever happened to anyone else?
I once had the opposite. Bought some DLCs and thought I was playing one of them, but before I knew it I was at a point on no return in the main story line