It's important to remember that Swen has all the Metadata from millions of playthroughs that shows him what people like to do. BG3 will be affected more by that metadata than us crazy people who post on the forums.
It's important to remember that having data is worthless unless you know how to use it, and Larian has demonstrated that they do not.
Really? How so?
If you had metadata showing that people love to be shoving peeps around would you remove shove?
How have they demonstrated they don't know how to use data?
How they handled Bless is a good example. The data said players were not using Bless much. Their interpretation: "Bless is boring and people want fireworks" <- this was said during an interview. In the tabletop Bless is one of the best spells in the game, something you can use from level 1 up to level 20 since +2.5 to attack rolls and saves is universally powerfull.
