the decision of limiting the party to four characters (under the assumption that your audience is made by smooth-brained people who can't keep up with the complexity of having more).
Yeah, you left huge amounts of room for interpretation with that
Seriously, its okay that you get off these kind of hyperbole assumptions, but don't expect everyone else to drink your Cool-Aid.
It is far more reasonable to blame it on "less work to do" than anything else. But you have to have your little conspiracy, right?
Seriously: maybe just calm your rhetoric down a few. Its sad seeing an adult behave like some edgy teen pretending to be an internet though guy.
I invite you to make a good and non-hyperbole argument, that shows that your theory of "Larian thinks i'm dumb" is better in any way than the simple "its less work". You won't. Because you are incapable to.