I didn't say that was the case; if anything, Larian has found its niche by specifically not being mass-market. But I am neither qualified nor authorised to speak about its business decisions; it is just my personal observation that they would need to balance the preferences of their player base.
I don't know... Larian used to be the text book definition of niche, but are they still a niche with millions of copies sold before the game even got released?