twillight, most free-roaming games have "fail-safe" mechanisms installed. No ancient dragons for you until you know spell "arcane unlock" to access their lair, and that given on L25. No flying cities with alien powerful weapons, if you not proficient enough to pilot ancestral spaceship. Etc., etc. "Metroidvania" games, actually, totally build on that principles, and they are thriving!

So it
could be done right - you simply need to thought out needed possible outcomes and bar all others.

(And yes, I know that Bethesda consistently failing with that.
And speaking about their page on Kickstarter, they revamped it greatly! Wow!
Now it takes right forms - no empty words, no SILLY SPELLING, and now here are pictures and interviews! (It's a pity that it seems too late
