I don't think there is as much hunger for RtwP as you do.
74000 backers for the PoE's crowdfunding campaign. That's more than DoS + DoS2. They obviously missed some things to keep their audience hyped (what Larian did) but the hunger is here.
PoE had a better hype just talking about the video game Baldur's Gate, not about D&D, about The Realms and/or a TB game mode.... Imagine if they were...
I hope Larian won't miss that. I guess this audience is not (as we can read here) "a few haters that only complain and live in the past".
The name is not the game.
PS : DA:I is bad, but EA sold way more units than every game we're talking about.