It's been extremely fun watching the BG3 subreddit suddenly take a left turn into being overly critical of the game within the past week. Now that it's sinking in that we're probably in for a much longer wait for any scrap of new information than anyone ever anticipated, people have been given the time to go through and critically analyze the game's various systems, because there's nothing distracting the masses anymore and hardly anything else to talk about.
Forced memes have a shelf life. Unaddressed problems don't.
I think the romance phase is over. Although I have a feeling shove might still be popular on Reddit.