I think it's pretty clear at this point from your numerous posts that you're happy to be playing this DOS3. Everything that Larian changed was spectacular and nobody should ever need or want anything different.
You try to justify their poor choices with arguments such as "errr other games do it" which makes no sense.
Is that really where you want to go? Really? First line: Happy with DOS 3, second line "err, other games do it". Yeah, some quality arguments there mate. Your whole argument is based on "but another game did it", but now you have a problem with the argument? That's a little inconsistent isn't it? Of course, it's to be expected.
"Oh, I'm a very experienced player that shelved ToEE because it was turn based but then discovered my new god: Larian" who gives a shit?
Was there any point here besides attempting a personal attack on me, or my game experience? I'm flattered, really.
People aren't giving their feedback on the feedback forum based on robertthebard greatest adventures. You even justify the idiotic changes to AC, HP, every goblin having grenades and magical arrows in another post with "oh but I played a campaign with my friends that was just defending a village from goblins, if we didn't make them more exciting, the campaign would suck"... Well maybe the campaign did suck. That doesn't mean that because of your poor experience in that game goblins in BG3 should be changed. It messes up a whole bunch of systems which you conveniently ignore. Have also read somewhere you saying that the reason for all these magical arrows and grenades and what not in every pleb goblin makes sense because some NPC gave it a reason... I mean... That's silly isn't it? Then let's have 3 red dragons guard princess Gut in her temple and have an NPC at the entrance show you a reason for it as well: "welp, this here is princess Gut Targaryen, our very own khaleesi, live with it.". People find these things annoying, and rightly so.
What about that gave you the impression that it sucked? That it's not how you would have done it? Here we are again, with your blatant hypocrisy of "If I find it fun, it should be the way it is, to hell with what everyone else thinks, especially if they have the unmitigated gall to disagree with me". Hey, I have you a solution to people challenging your ideas, submit your feedback privately if you can't handle your thoughts being challenged. There's a feedback button on the launcher. Also, yeah, what was I thinking, using the story to justify the story. I should be so ashamed of myself, yeah? Wait. That's actually bassackwards, isn't it. People that don't pay attention to plot points, and then don't understand the story are the real problem here. Thanks for pointing that out. So, I guess my next question has to be "when are you going to start paying attention to what's actually presented in game, instead of finding a bandwagon to jump on?", right?
You don't agree with people saying the game looks a lot like DOS when you have posts stating 80 reasons for exactly why people are saying this.
"I understand not wanting flush hundreds of manhours down the drain recreating every plate in a game". Well, so do I, but that's not my problem. They are marketing their product in a way and developing it in another. There are a lot of problems with the fact that they are using the same engine as in DOS. And people are stating them here, that's what the feedback forum is for. Answering "welp, they would have to spend more time and money to make it better, so leave it's ok as is" to these things... I don't even know what to call it... This is a full priced game, not some 5 dollar indie game thrown at the store, the customer should be able to expect quality and things properly done.
...and? You see, I've played it recently, and for all the "this is the same/same(ish)", there are things that are different too. Right down to the basic art style of the games. Now maybe you still get an allowance from mom? I don't know, but I have to be fiscally responsible for myself. That means that, if I don't have to flush money down the drain, I don't do it. You want to know what's really weird? Hammers look like hammers, every where I go. Hey, there's even different hammers. The same is true for plates, and glasses. Some of them even look different, lots of that in game, and out here in the real world. So yeah, not changing those assets doesn't bother me in the least bit. You know what I noticed right out of the gate? The character models are way different. The creature design is way different, and the types of creatures are different. Not as way different as other things, but a rat, by any other name...
"But it's not DnD, so why do I have to roll all these dice"... That's pretty common too, isn't it? I'm even going to blow another hole your narrative: Some of those I actually agree with, like stomping the tadpole. Pass one check, be done. I know, I know, "but you're not allowed to think differently, if you do you're some kind of phobe, or ist", right? I mean, that's the only argument you haven't used, yet. I hope I didn't step on your moment by demonstrating that I know this is coming, but really, it's already a tired cliche put out by people that just don't understand that people don't have to agree with them, and just don't have anything left to support why they should. Another misconception on your part, and frankly it's starting to look more like it's deliberate, than not understanding what's being presented, is that there's a world of difference between flushing hundreds of manhours down the drain redesigning plates, and doing other things to improve the game. If what two plates, from two different games drives you this far over the edge, I can't imagine the hell you must go through going to restaraunts, where they may have the same supplier, or if the dishes at mom's house look like the dishes at grandma's house.
What specific problems are there with the engine? Do all BG games now have to be in the Infinity Engine? I hope not, I mean, BioWare moved away from that to Aurora for NWN. Unless it's still that you're way freaked out by dishes looking the same, or hammers? That's a "You" issue, not an "engine" issue.
