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Since Pact of the Tome is part of the official rules, I think it's reasonable to assume that it will be in full game and so will its upgrades, Book of Ancient Secrets.

Book of Ancient Secrets

You can now inscribe magical rituals in your Book of Shadows. Choose two 1st-level spells that have the ritual tag from any class’s spell list (the two needn’t be from the same list). The spells appear in the book and don’t count against the number of spells you know. With your Book of Shadows in hand, you can cast the chosen spells as rituals. You can’t cast the spells except as rituals, unless you’ve learned them by some other means. You can also cast a warlock spell you know as a ritual if it has the ritual tag.

On your adventures, you can add other ritual spells to your Book of Shadows. When you find such a spell, you can add it to the book if the spell’s level is equal to or less than half your warlock level (rounded up) and if you can spare the time to transcribe the spell. For each level of the spell, the transcription process takes 2 hours and costs 50 gp for the rare inks needed to inscribe it.

In the P&P version of D&D, this is a very useful thing, as ritual spells have huge RP potential.
Unfortunately, 90% of these spells are completely useless in a computer game.

There are a lot of ritual spells like "Alarm, Augury, Animal Messenger, Tiny Hut, Illusory Script, Purify Food and Drink, Detect Poison and Disease, Gentle Repose, Locate Animals or Plants, Magic Mouth, Skywrite, Meld into Stone, Phantom Steed, Water Breathing, Water Walk, Divination" that just can't realistically be put into BG3. Well, at least not in the current state of the game. It would be necessary to create quests that would be specifically tailored around these spells, which would be somewhat complicated. And it would limit the use of these spells to this single quest anyway. Like I said, it's just not practical.

Unless Larian is going to completely destroy one (along with the Pact of the Blade) of Warlock's most popular specializations, it will be necessary to expand the types of spells that can be written into his book a bit.