Honestly, I think if Auto-Detect settings worked instead of defaulting to Ultra, it would help a lot of people.
Oh yeah, given my gfx card is slightly below specs as said, I was a bit disheartened at first, at the game was running ultra on start-up. That optimization is still a process is also posted below the specs on the Steam store page. But personally I'm pretty fine as is already -- will swap my card for a new one next year anyways sometime. It's still at least a year until BG3 full comes out too!