The subreddit, Wolfheart's recent video about homebrew, this forum and a lot of other forums... Everywhere players are talking about the game, they ask for "more DnD for a better balanced game" and "raised issues about the combat system".
I used "" because this is a summary. Everyone agree that shove is fun but too powerfull, that advantages are too easy to have, that disengage shouldn't be a bonus action, that surface broke the concentration mechanic, that the rest system is really cheap... Everyone agree that the game rely more on meta gaming than anything else and that the balance is broken (easy in solo and hard with a party of 4)...
According to me that's what they listenned to and that's what he's talking about when he said that combats doesn't meet players expectations. (Something like that, I don't remember exactly).
Ofc they'll try to please DoS fans. It would be stupid not to. And it would be stupid not to please DnD fans. It's not like if it was not possible. DoS fans are not only players that wants surfaces everywhere and easy exploit as basic mechanics and DnD fans are not against a few homebrew.
BG3's combats only suffer the very bad balance of its mechanics and as a consequence : a ridiculous difficulty.
Patch 5 will solve most mechanical issues we have raised since the beginning. That's what I understood of this interview.
