You don’t have to do smithing for mot of Skyrim. And you can get gear without smithing. Smithing just gave you a way to level up quickly and produ✤ce specific gears on a larger scale.

I played MMORPGs before I started DMing. I find boss battles ar🐬en’t that bad to handle if you treat them like raid boss battles. Give the boss more health and some neat mechanics the. Things go a long way. And there are plenty of onl𒀰ine resources for homebrew that you can simply reskin to fit a visual theme.