I think I picked it up during the first year, but I have gone back to it fairly recently, and there are a number of mods out there to make it prettier.

Morrowind overhaul is one place where they have made a collection of mods that work together and make the game very pretty.

Tamriel rebuilt probably has a few maps out too, if the original morrowind is too small for you.

Of course, if you compare it to skyrim it does look a bit dated, but it is a bigger world, and I think there are more quests around, and fairly thought through stories.