Depending on what you like, you may find Skyrim better or worse. Oblivion had a lot of pretty well written quests, with interesting or surprising conclusions, even if they had simplistic samey gameplay.

Skyrim is better in action gameplay, though it is still extremely simplistic and samey compared to BG 2. It's still much better in terms of feel and than Oblivion. But in terms of quests, Skyrim is much worse, with virtually all quests being simple "clear this cave of people who have wronged me", though there are a handful of exceptions.