Well ES 6 wont be coming out for a long fucking time. Unless they have a vast team dedicated to it. Unfortunately Bethesda is kind of one game at a time company unless they job the shit out, and from what Ive been hearing through the grapevines is they dont like to job out shit anymore because of Fallout NV. Yeah Fallout NV was a great game, some say it was the best of the series, but I guess Obsidian and Bethesda had some falling out. Not sure the back story its just what I heard. Maybe someone could expand on this if they know why. But anyway, Bethesda is kinda busy with StarSector right now and probably is dedicating most of their resources to this game.
In reality I dont know why they chose to make a new game like Starsector insted of concentrating on their bread and butter of the last 20-30 yrs which is ES, and Fallout franchises. Shit Todds new baby, Starector began work right after Fallout 4 in 2015. 8 fucking years ago! And one of the reasons Fallout 76 had no direction....
"A couple of sources Kotaku spoke with didn’t feel that the teams had a coherent direction for what was supposed to be during its initial three-year development cycle. According to one source, Howard was supposed to be in charge of the game, but he spent most of his time working on Starfield, which reportedly started development after Fallout 4 shipped in 2015. One source told Kotaku that his subordinates would call it “seagulling” when he would “fly by later and shit all over an idea” that had popular traction within the design team."
Bethesda seems like they do best when they do one game at a time with Howard full time as the overseer. And that unfortunately leads to 7-10 yrs between major releases. 76 was the only stepchild and it shows. I mean its decent now but it took them a few years to fix the shit into a semi decent live service game. Plus now they have a different studio, Double Eleven, doing content for them too.