Baldur's Gate and Baldur's Gate 2 were two of the Most Popular and Widely played video games EVER,
Both of the games were successful for the times, but I think that it's worth remembering that Divinity Original Sin 2 was incredibly successful and Baldur's Gate 3 has already sold well over 1m and it's in EA and has been very well-received.
Meanwhile PoE sales weren't nearly as impressive and the expansion actually didn't do well at all to the point that the devs said that a sequel is unlikely. And PoE is sorta regarded as a spiritual successor to Baldur's Gate in a more traditional way.
Lets not overstate the importance of Baldur's Gate 1 and 2, Larians formula has been incredibly successful and shown to work too.
And the competition today is way higher than it was back when Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 came out too.
I agree with some of the OP's point, but I think that people kinda gotta stop acting as if just because it's different than Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 or the tabletop then it's bad and wrong.
In the end of the day it's a video game and certain things need to work a certain way to make it functional.
There wouldn't be much of a point for example to knock someone down if they could just get up easily and keep fighting, you'd just be wasting your own actions ( or the enemy ) and it'd turn more into just a dps race.
Whether it '' makes sense '' from an irl pov or not is another matter entirely.
