Yeah that's true - morrowind has game breaking items like boots of blinding speed, where you need to abuse the games mechanics to make them actually useful. Same with the jumping scroll you find early on - if you just use it, you're gonna die from fall damage.
By the end of my last (vanilla) playthrough I could fly through the sky like superman at 100mph, you really can't do things like that in skyrim.
I had a levitate spell, and fortify jump + slowfall + boots of blinding speed. If I could run and jump I did, otherwise I used levitate because it was slower. Also because I was Telvanni and they really can't do without levitate!
Oh yeah haha I don't think I really used it on enemies, on my destruction mage I just levitated myself out of harm's way and used fire spells to cheese melee enemies.
By the end of my last (vanilla) playthrough I could fly through the sky like superman at 100mph, you really can't do things like that in skyrim.