Not only that, but the further BG3 strays from 5e, the more fallout there may be. We have seen this not too long ago with Cyberpunk and the hate-train, where people turned on CDPR because they "lied" and made "false promises". Regardless of it being true or not, it was blown out of proportions and people just jumped on the hate train because they could.
BG3 already has a hard road ahead of it, with how there are already plenty of people hating on the game for not being a true BG and not a worthy successor etc. With how Larian promised a game "As faithful to 5e as possible" with options of being able to make your 5e character in BG3 it makes the situation even more tricky with deviating from it. Regardless of what you think of Solasta: Crown of the Magister or BG3, Solasta did prove that you can be really faithful and making a game with solid mechanics, adding to it being a tricky situation with claims of being as faithful to 5e as possible.
It is a hate-train bound to happen, much like it happened with Cyberpunk2077 and CDPR, and that is something that should not really have a repeat (It was kind of ridicilous how such a thing happened in the first place as well but that is a different subject).
Yeah, I agree with you.
It's hard, on the one hand you want to give feedback because you want BG3 to be a game you can enjoy and play a long time, on the other hand you can get frustrated when you feel it's not the way it could be.
And certainly nobody wants that something similar as with Cyberpunk happens again, be it how the game reacted or how the developers got treated by their management.
If Larian wants to make a game that is more Divinity than Baldur's Gate, by all means, they should do it. No doubt it will be a game many people will enjoy.
