It seems to be defending Bethesda’s writing by talking about the “Bronze Age Collapse” being “unrealistic writing” but then it also gets that wrong in ways that literally are bad fiction writing by old academics that’s since been discredited. Like the current understanding of the “Bronze Age Collapse” is that it wasn’t a broader collapse, but a general economic shift towards longer range and more mercantile sea trade routes which devastated a specific network of elite prestige gift-trade economies by circumventing them (and also more piracy and sea raiding, because both of those are crimes of opportunity committed by sailors and fishermen and more sea trade and better boats meant more opportunity for that). Also the bit about currency and barter is particularly wrong: the economy became more based on what we’d understand as trade and less focused on abstract gift and favor exchanges (also “barter economies” aren’t a stage of economic development, they’re currency-based economies that don’t have enough currency around and so resort to substitutions or use theoretical currency valuations for exchanges).