Well let me give you a hostage situation in a side quest in kcd 2.

You have a criminal who is holding a woman hostage(it’s a long quest with many choices and detective work and skill checks) you have options when you get to the hostage situation

Option 1: Negotiate with the criminal and with your speech level(this includes charisma which is impacted by what you wear) you can convince the criminal to let go of the hostage and let him go free.

Option 2: accidentally shoot the hostage (it will have its own consequences) or just fail to convince him and have him kill the hostage.

Option 3: if your aiming level is high enough you can head shot the criminal with a bow without even talking to him saving the hostage.

Ofcourse the quest is long and even after that it puts you in places where you have to make tough decisions and have the best outcome of your skill levels are high enough.

Other one shows that even a fetch quest is well designed like it will have a guy asking you to bring him a relic sword.

Option 1: you can find the sword and give it to him.

Option 2: you can find it and if your speech level is high enough you can lie to him and tell him you didn’t find it.

Option 3: you can see a drawing that shows the relic sword and if your smithing level is high enough you can create a replica and give to the quest giver.

These are just two quests and the game is full of these types of quests, this is what an rpg is, you “roleplay” the character you want. Ofcourse many people prefer linear gameplay like expedition and that’s fine but as an rpg it’s very clear which one gives you the more “rpg” experience.