Firstly, if you believe the Elder Scrolls Online will be good, then you're the target audience for the Xbox One. Congratulations.
You know, before the NSA thing, the Kinect was a very impressive piece of technology some people genuinely believed to be a futuristic look at voice and gesture commands.
Now it's just a spycamera so the NSA can watch you masturbate on the couch in high definition, because that's a valuable resource of intelligence compared to internet and phone, which can actually be transmitted over the 1.5 Mbps (yes, megaBITS, crap DSL) recommended minimum connection.
Needs to be mentioned somewhere in some history book as the most unfortunate product launch timing ever.
Most of the gaming community thought the Kinect was terrible when it first came out, you know. It's neat, but literally NOTHING noteworthy game-wise has been released for it so far. Small third-parties have managed to implement the technology for other uses so far, but they could of done the same thing without it honestly. Now, if the Kinect was not attached to a gaming device, and was made to be more than a gimmick, then I'd agree with you.
Secondly, people weren't freaking out about it due to the NSA scandal. Fun fact, here in America literally no one gives a fuck about the NSA scandal. The only reason people are getting sort of mad, is because politicians and the media are reacting to it. So I guarantee you the outcry isn't due to recent events, and contrary to your belief very few people thought the Kinect was impressive (The potential was impressive, the device itself wasn't.) People were pissed about the Xbone because it was clearly anti-consumer, and disallowed the person who bought it (And owns it, I might add) to not do things they would of been able to do prior with older consoles.