Okay I hate to break it to you and I don't want to seem that I'm overly attacking your feelings, but if you were really following what Larian studios was putting out there in interviews before the game play demo. You would of understood that BG3 was going to be felt like a next generation game provided that they had lots of success with DO2 series, The tell tell signs were all over the place.
Why didn't I feel surprised when Swen showed us the gameplay demo? because I knew this was the direction they were going to go with the game and I love it. For me, if your a true DnD fan, you won't pass on this opportunity to play this game. Since, nostalgia isn't my only parameter to either buy/ not to buy a DnD game.
Having said that, I do agree with you that there can be improvement since the game is still buggy and not ready yet obviously. And some of the stuff you pointed out can be a give and take. I particularly would love options, options to toggle things on/off is always great.
I can't wait to see the combat difficulty option they have in store.
I kind off expected what I got at the gameplay reveal. I also think its a mistake not to play into the nostalgia atleast a bit. As far as I can tell this is Baldurs Gate in name only. Why acquire the license if you dont want to harness the essence of the classic games? From a marketing point of view it would actually be a disaster to completly ignore all the aging players who are (were?) hyped about this game because they played BG1/2 when they were young.
I was cautiously optimistic before the reveal and I remain optimistic because I think alot of it is just copy-paste placeholders from using the DOS engine. But I cant say I'm not worried this might not be the game for me.
