The community is only divided because of the name of this game.
Fan's of BG don't want this awesome game to be Baldur's Gate 3. Fan's of Larian are so hyped by their new game. Fan's of D&D are one or the other.
Just forget about the name of the game and everyone would talk about "the new great larian RPG" instead of talking only about "What is/should be Baldur's Gate".
I don't want them to change the name,I want the new game of the bg franchise to have some resemblance to their predecesors wich is pretty reasonable in mi opinion.
That's also what I want. But if you delete the core of a game, you only keep what was not a specific part of the video game.
Lore, universe, rules, you don't have to be BG3 to only keep that. They were lots of "BG-like" before and BG should not become DoS-like Nearly no one cares about the specific city of Baldur's Gate. SoA wasn't at Baldur's Gate.