The OP is right. Even though WotC nerfed alignment it needs to be in some form. Sorry Swen, the D&D secret sauce isn't in a potion bottle, it in the traditions and lore. Larian needs to be, at the very least, conscious of how alignment works in D&D. Faerun isn't Rivelon or Westeros . . .
Case in point -- we are starting out in a temple of Selune and traveling with priest of Shar. Great! So many role playing opportunities since Shar and Selune are immortal enemies. So if the temple is guarded by the undead -- and it looks like it is -- that needs to be explained because the neutral good clerics of the moon would never create undead to guard their temple. So what happened? Obviously, someone came along to desecrate the temple and the undead must be guarding something other than the remains of Selune's faithful.
If you take the alignment our of the mix the secret sauce loses it's potency. As WotC found with 4th edition.
Make way villainy!
