I think Larian got their demographics right.
IF your 40+ you dislike the game. WTF is BG2 ?! WTF is D^D?! Stupid romance cringy telltales wtf???? Gameplay is sloooww...
I'm 52. I like BG3 and I like romance subplots. Guy over the road is younger than me and won't touch any D&D that isn't a board game.
Same, I'm 47 and I like BG3 just fine. I played BG 1 when it came out and still am OK with BG3. I don't think, it's made for younger ages, it's more personal taste.
Just to add to this; suggesting that anyone over 40 wouldn't know what D&D is displays ignorance of the history of the game and gaming community. AD&D, the game that really acted as the catalyst for playing tabletop RPGs, came out in 1977. Before then, RPGs existed but were far less commercially successful. The first home computers were becoming popular about the same time, and RPG adventures were amongst those early computer games ('The Hobbit' came out in 1982 for the ZX Spectrum, and the tenuously D&D-related 'Dungeons & Dragons Computer Fantasy Game' came out on handheld console in 1981).
The furore of the Irving Pulling suicide and related negative publicity surrounding (mainly) AD&D was in the early 1980s. Negative publicity though it may have been, it propelled the game and RPGs into the public spotlight.
I started playing AD&D back in 1979 and I am now older than Vometia. I played pretty much non-stop back then and rarely had trouble finding a group. I have played both BG1 and BG2 (and Icewind Dale), as well as the NWN series.
So no, being over 40 in no way shape or form makes it likely that you have never heard of D&D or the Baldur's Gate series. Sweeping generalisations about age are, like all forms of stereotyping, rarely a helpful way to classify people.
