Maybe not a copy-paste of BG2, but I'd like something in a similar vein. Would help a tiny bit with "making BG3 feel like BG".
Nostalgia is fine thing, but nothing should be exaggerated, its over decade old design, games moved on.
"Moved on" in this case means "current aesthetic trends are different". Which, imo, is no reason to do or not do anything. BG3 doesn't need to copy current trends any more than than it needs to copy old trends. The old design was perfectly functional (and stronger stylistically); and even then, there's no reason we can't have aesthetics calling back to the originals (BG2 has a great style even by modern standards) and implement modern QoL/ease-of-use on top of that.
As of now, BG3 lacks strong stylistic identity. There are some elements that could work very well, but they're very subtle (UI "golden borders" etc.). If you made them more prominent and combined with BG2 stylistic framework, the effects could be amazing.
