No any sidequest scales to your level. I mean you can't do the story quests out of order (and the XP they give insures a minimum level) but the sidequests are wide open.
As to the limits on your character, if you put your starting int to 9, take the 4 skill points per level talent at 4 and get the int bobblehead early you can easily max everything but 3 weapon types (I picked neglecting melee, big guns and unarmed). My end character has 10 per, 10 agi, 4 str, 10 cha, 4 stam, 10 int and 10 luck pretty easily with 100 or close enough to 100 that I can put on an outfit to get me there in just about everything. Books made up the difference pretty easily and let me do that maxing.
What I mean by pointing that out is that you weren't really any more limited then you were in oblivion in terms of being able to do everything. So there was really no reason to cap leveling at such a low point.
I just hate the feeling of not progressing, it actually got me to stop playing pretty quickly after it happened. Knowing you already have everything you're going to have (except a point here or there from books) is kind of depressing in a way.
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