About month ago Josh Sawyer from Obsidian has done an online lecture
Reputation Overload - The Evolution of RPG Reputation Mechanics.
In the comment section Marat Sar, dev of recent indie RPG darlin' Disco Elysium, might have revealed something new about BG3. When discussing potential adaptation of DE ideas into other RPGs he said this:
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That would explain past tense, though it still might feel really werid to me, if its used for a big chunk, or the whole game.
Any RPG taking a look at what Disco did, and adapting some of the ideas is a good thing, as far as I am concerned. They've done some really neat things there.