BG allowing the players to rest “as much as they liked” with hardly any drawbacks was one of the shittiest things about the game and something a lot of fans criticized for years , incidentally.
Weird, I played the old games a fair bit and I don't actually remember anyone complaining about that. The AI being rubbish, the inventory management, some of the more ridiculous cheesy stuff like selling the things you just stole to the merchants you stole it from, selling wands to recharge them, some of the encounters in BG2 being made too trivial by certain items (Shield of Balduran, for instance), and ToB being too linear...
All that I remember, but I don't recall there being a whole lot of noise about unlimited resting. If people wanted to play that way then that was on them.
