A DOS2 with better graphics is not a BG game, it’s DOS3, at most.
Right. But DOS2 with better graphics and more features,
and D&D lore and rules, is a BG game.
Even on this Larian forum a lot of people seem to want a game that has its own identity. I think you’ll see in the final product that’s what the devs want as well.
A game with its own identity is one thing (and what needs to be done to achieve that is another). But futilely trying to recapture the identity of a game made twenty years ago is something else (especially from a company like Larian who has had great success with a different approach).