First timer, does this game pick up?

Hi all - so I’m one of the few that the experience of sitting down and getting into this game has just kept narrowly escaping me, until now that is! So I’ve played all the elder scrolls and have enjoyed those quite a bit, but now getting into this one is taking me awhile to adjust, maybe because it’s a TES feel but with guns and stuff, which I am remedying by playing on pc so I can use keyboard + mouse, which has been successful. I just finished the super duper mart quest from Moira and am wondering if (hoping that) this slow start is just kind of like RDR2, because that game started off super slow but turned out amazing as I’m sure most of us know. Does this one start to pick up soon or are there any ways I can jump start it? I want to stay committed!