It was an escalation, not a clarification.
If the statements made are not an accurate representation of what you think was being referred to, it would have been much more constructive to ask for specifics, than make assumptions. FWIW I have seen multiple people demand the game be changed because it wasn't designed to their standards of what BG3 should be, including changing to RTwP; I don't know about the 'right' to speak, but opinions have absolutely been dismissed by some if they came from someone deemed not a real BG1+2 fan (though such dismissiveness, or just arguing past one another in general, is not exclusive to any particular side, or topic).
