I don't even think I need to go on to stress the point: the issue here isn't if they can or not. It's that they just don't want to.
That would be my biggest fear too.
I can see how the immense commercial success of DOS2, and now BG3 EA potentially leading a developer towards that kind of thinking. It doesn't help that they haven't communicated much officially in regards to the mechanics.
It has only been a month, so I am willing to wait and see. Larian seems to be avoiding commitments (hence probably why they had Kevin, the writer, pull down his stream where he "confirmed" many details). I don't love it as an EA player, but I can respect that as a viable approach from the development side.
