Is Divinity 2 & FOV actually an Action-RPG ?
No, it is how many videogames magazines call it.
And that's - as far as my theory goes - exactly the way how Sacred became. It went from a "full" RPG to an Action-RPG, and in my theory this "changing point" was made because someone realized that the gaming press constantly compared the game to the "main" Action-RPG at tht time (you know, the one by Blizzard).
They had actually been working on a "full" RPG BEFORE they hnged everything into an Action-RPG.