I can't help but feel like Larian tries a couple of times to force you through several roles to increase the chance of just dropping you into a failure situation. Maybe that's just to get people used to 'failing is fine and fun', but to me it didn't feel like it. I don't trust Larian the way I would trust a DM to not screw with the party. I don't mind failing dice rolls with a DM at the table if I can trust him to not use it just to screw us, but to make something special happen. If a DM increases the chances of things go south to tell the story - like in Nettie's case - I'm fine with it. If they just add dice roll after dice roll so that you fail and end up fighting that's when I call the DM out - and it feels a bit like this is the case we have in EA.
