I'm on the boat of our PC feeling really lackluster right now, but I'm not opposed to Origin Characters. I think this is honestly more of a situation where Larian needs to balance the amount of PC interaction with the world, because the more I play the more I feel like I'm the third wheel to the main story.
Sure, I might be leading the party choices, but in the end it's still extremely Origin-char centric, which is not what I want. I got BG3 because of the fact that it was marketed as a PC-customizable experience, not because I wanted to play or see through the lenses of Origin Chars. While I see the appeal of OC, it doesn't set it apart from any other open-world RPG that focuses on a pre-made protagonist that I could have bought instead if I wanted to play something like that. And for the arguments about it being the same as DnD where we mostly come up with everything and should -- if I wanted to play DnD straight up, I would have. If I'm going to go through the trouble of creating a whole backstory on my own, I'd just go play actual DnD where player experience is left to total imagination since there'd be an actual live DM and other real life players to help tailor the experience. But BG3 has neither of those to make the "leave your PC up to your imagination outside of the game" really fly. It's not fun that way, at least in my opinion, and it's inconsiderate of players outside of the DnD scope.
As for the solution, I don't know. Even though I am enjoying BG3 right now, the approach to PC is a pretty big letdown. They really should invest more in PC immersion than Origins, imo.
