First of all - thanks Niara for your post. Great summary as always.
Yeah, this patch was the one I was waiting for to see what direction Larian has decided to go with the game and by now I know that BG3 is not the game for me. Watching Sven play was a show of all the things I despise about BG3 and where many people usually come up with 'they are listening, its just EA' - but no. Its their philosphy when it comes to create games.
BG3 is the first game I fully regret buying in a long time. I'm usually forgiving that some game might not be my style of play or whatever, but this one is a design mess by a well founded and large enough studio that could and should do better, while sadly failing at absolute basics. Its not a matter of bugs, but tons of questionable desicions and no coherent vision beyond 'I want chessy ways to handle things, I don't care about the core game'.
