[skobes]

I'm fond of STIX Two, which is very close to Times New Roman but just a little bit nicer, especially the italic.

[creata]

I agree! More praise: it's well-hinted, has good support for Unicode and math, and comes packaged with macOS.

It should be mentioned that the x-height is much higher than the usual Times New Roman, which is usually a good thing imo, but different.