Why is Morrowind so difficult to run properly? (Alt title: Why can't I get what I want?)

[Star Classic]

I'm pissed as all hell because I want to play a good game but this stupid fossil that it is has no proper FOV commands or settings. I do have MGE but I have the graphical settings turned off because it gets rid of the old water. Because we can't have nice things, one of the graphical settings that gets disabled is FOV. Now, some people might be able to handle low FOV. I'm not one of those people. Furthermore, people think you're a "madman" for wanting the water to look like how it did on release because God forbid we actually want to preserve things. There's also one of those stupid FPS optimizers available that you have to have running in the background like a damn Dialysis machine. You would think someone in the history of now would think "hey maybe we should have a way to change such basic things without a secondary EXE!" but I guess not. Is it so hard to not have such a basic function tied to a secondary EXE or GUI???

So these are my options
1. Bite the bullet and play with MGE stuff that disregards Vanilla graphics but gives me proper FOV
2. Play it without MGE and have vomit-inducing FOV
3. Play it with the FPS optimizer nicotine patch that has to be running 24/7 in the background
4. The perfect option that has all of the positives with none of the negatives (we are looking for this one) [may or may not exist]

Anyways feel free to call me autistic for sperging about a 23 year old video game.

 

[Agent Abe Caprine]

Pick up Counter-Strike too. It's a fascinating port.

Heard the Half Life 2 port is good.

 

[Waifu Days]

 

[Toy Soldier]

I can't find anywhere to brag but I made a thing. Replaced shit Ancient Steel Snow Prince Armor in Bloodmoon with more updated Skyrim-like Ancient Falmer Armor. Also replaced the spear with a moonstone carved spear and made a moonstone shield but am not sure whether I'll actually implement it or not.