Regarding XP gain

Salacious

Why is it killing enemies of your level grant you little to no xp - for example ill kill a cultist and watch the xp bar climb by a fraction of an inch, ill of a quest and get half a bar of xp - I know that quests have always been the fastest way to level, but while im randomly exploring and sometimes killing things to get to the place I want to go - I feel like I am not rewarded enough.

On that note do we get xp for:

- crafting (any kind of crafting)
- levelling skills (like in Old ES Games)

demendred

You get said crafting xp, not character xp.
Skills get xp and level up when you kill things that give you xp.

Inversus

It's more that gaining exp levels skills, rather than in tes games where leveling skills increases xp.