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A large portion of the user base of any reasonably successful game simply doesn't have the experience, the familiarity and sometime even the "gaming literacy" to clearly identify what's wrong with what they are playing. What mechanics exactly work, what don't, why and to what extent.
For the most part they just feel on an intuitive level that something may be wrong.

Still, most of of them, especially when familiar with other similar titles in the genre, even if not spontaneously vocal about it, when pointed by a third party why a certain thing doesn't work, why it should be improved, etc, will be able to decide if they can agree or not.
In other words they may not know what they want, but they can recognize what they like/dislike when presented to them.

The overwhelming majority of people I crossed in the past year may not even conceive the idea to voice complaints specifically aimed at the game's current control system, but when put in front of the discussion and forced to think about the pros and cons, the dislike for the Larian solution has always been almost unanimous.
In the rare cases where I've spotted the occasional exception it was always people who sounded suspiciously invested in defending whatever Larian was doing "Just because", rather than genuine fondness for the system.
You know, the same guys who will tell you "It seems fine enough to me" over and over, just to correct their aim in "Yeah, thank god is gone, it was very bad" IF the developers decide to change it later.

Psychological profiling for the fringe cases aside, the stats don't really leave that much room for doubts about the level of appreciation the current system inspires: it's genuine trash tier.

What surprises me the most, though, are the devs themselves: can we actually believe that no one at Larian in the last 8-9 years of development for DOS 1, DOS 2 and DOS BG 3 ever had this wild, novel epiphany "What if we released a game where controls aren't actively detrimental to the player's enjoyment, for once?".