So, basically every house and cottage in Vvardenfell has been there, exactly the same, for a thousand years. And I thought the Star Wars universe was stagnant :P

Star Wars isn't stagnant, it just goes backwards. :P

The newer things get, the older and more primitive they look.

Actually they look pretty much the same. Thousands of years into the past, and all you get is a slight variation on a Star Destroyer or a stormtrooper armor.

At least in the old canon. Maybe everything will be wildly differet in the new one, if we ever see the distant past of it.

According to the guy talking in the linked video, several towns and villages in Elder Scrolls III have either just started having their foundations laid or don't yet exist at all in the Elder Scrolls Online expansion. And nature seems to be very different as well (the area in the latter game not having been affected by the ash for as long).

That's what I like the most about it, more than the obvious graphics upgrade. I wish Morrowind was that lush and green, it would be much more fun to explore.

*AHEM*

Yeah, that's from movies set 30-years apart. In Star Wars terms that's nothing. Hell, the Millenium Falcon was probably already around during Phantom Menace. You're comparing a royal yacht to an old, beat up smuggler freighter. I'm talking about and [url=https://lumiere-a.akamaihd.net/v1/images/databank_superstardestroyer_01_169_d5757b90.jpeg?region=0%2C0%2C1560%2C878&width=768]this about 3 500 years apart.

Or let's take a look at the trooper armor from 3500 years before Clone Wars vs a clone trooper :D

Probably!?

If you pay attention you can see it in a wide shot when they get back to Coruscant. Of course it was there.

That movie is way to boring to even stay awake, no to mention pay attention to such details :D

Vvardenfell was only opened up for settlement by the Temple, like, 30 years before Morrowind starts. All of the settlements there, with the exception of Temple settlements, are new-ish. That's one of the reasons the ancient bases with propylon chambers are all abandoned, because for centuries the only people there were Ashlanders, pilgrims, Temple staff, and crusaders fighting corprus beasts. So having Vvardenfell recreated faithfully to its Morrowind incarnation is actually a break from lore. Which isn't surprising for ESO, honestly. Even given how inconsistent Elder Scrolls lore is between games, ESO is unusually divergent from the other games.