Larian should name some In-Game trolls after some of the folks posting on these boards.
Repeat after me. BG3 takes place 100 game years, 20 Real World years, and three editions of D&D later than BG1 and 2.
References to the Sword Coast and Baldurs Gate region are all over the place. A "sequel" to the events of BG1 and 2 already was written, and are cannon in the Realms Lore.
And stop with the ridiculous comparisons to DoS2 - if you get deep enough ALL RPG's are the same.
OMGawd - BG3 is just a bad version of (fill -in game name). Both have protagonists, both have a posse, both have evil nefarious plots by evil characters, both have locations you visit where you kill people trying to kill you and get phat lewt, both have a beginning, a middle and an end, both have music and animated action!!
I hated (fill -in game name) and thus I hate BG3. And since I hate it, clearly everyone hates it.