My saves kept getting corrupted when I saved outdoors, unless I looked at my feet, and I got so frustrated with it I never looked back once my game became stable. I remember at the time, there was no MWSE, and many original bugs in the engine still existed. I vaguely remember stumbling into the project when I was trying to figure out issues with my save games in the original engine. Probably around 2013-14, seemingly after the project moved to C++ and I got my first PC, I started my first playthrough. I’m not actually sure offhand when I got into OpenMW. When and how did you discover the project? You will often find me on Discord helping people with, or researching my own, weird Morrowind problems.
But mostly, I like to spend my free time when I’m not with my kids writing code, specifically for OpenMW or some other Morrowind-related project. I have two kids and in my free time like to play pool and hack Xboxes. I actually got into programming seriously because of my interest in OpenMW many years ago.