TB games made by SSI yes, that were generally only played by proponents of D&D to begin with. The point being that BG expanded that audience to people who never played D&D.
You might be right about that (source?). But why would that be important?
Because, in a way, Larian and Wizard are choosing to eschew those people in favour of table top D&D players who already play D&D in order to sell DOS formula games.
Go to my thread (I know i screwed up and it should have been in here). The second post has a link to an interview on The Ringer. best interview I've found with the original Bioware crew. It has those facts in it.