One more thing, that is unrelated.
In Divnity I could move my characters independently and split my party. That was also possible in BG and BG2. It seems impossible in Baldur's Gate 3? Apparently I can only select one character at a time and my part auto follows. Am I missing something with the controls?
You can do this here, but its a little convoluted. If you want to split your whole party up, with your main selected, right click on 1 of your other toon's portraits in the lower left corner and select "ungroup". You need to do that for each toon you want to move around by themselves. Right clicking will also give you a "group" option which will let you regroup...select the first one you want, right click and group on a second and now that 2nd one will follow your first toon around.
Yes people have been complaining about how the movement/grouping is implemented basically since EA started.
