Larian Studios Forums Divinity 2 - Ego Draconis (English) Divinity 2 - Ego Draconis The moral of the story of Ego Draconis kinda s*cks

Your points are all valid, though I personally disagree on the Aleroth part in FoV, I found it surprisingly amusing!
And at times I found the Orobas Fjords at least as much fun as Broken Valley.
That being sad, I still love Ego Draconis as a whole.

And the Developer's journal also states that Broken Valley was indeed the area that received the most love from it's makers
(actually I find this pattern in pretty much every Divinity game: the first level/area gets the most attention, I would not be surprised if the same goes for BG3).

The Developer's journal is included on gog and the physical edition of Developer's cut, don't know about Steam.