Neh, It was better when you had to crowdfund this games. You have the risk of never have the game made, but at least they will let you add this kind of features as bonus tiers to attract more funding in Kickstarters and pages like that...
First New York Times interview was not exactly about what I would've imagined, but it does bring some good news: While we're slowed down, development on BG3 keeps on progressing and we still expect EA this year