So. You want an UI that resembles the old games or you want an UI that is more likeable to you? because your description does not seem like the old games...
You really feel that the DoS 2 UI feels like BG's UI because portraits are on the side ? Is that only a matter of position according to you ? That's very short.
I really try to do my best while choosing my words (especially in EN) but yea, in EXEMPLE the user interface of P:K, PoE or Tyranny suits way better to a game named Baldur's Gate to me (even wasteland 2 if you want an exemple with a totally different style).
The UI of BG3 and DoS feels like a mmorpg with many informations everywhere, big skills bar, informations and effects everywhere on the screen... There not only one side of the screen where you have nothing in front of the action. It's very intrusive while it's way more sober in the old BG and suits better to "writing a story" in a RPg according to me.
That was just a clue that maybe, gives the feeling that the game looks more like DoS than that a Baldur's Gate game.
