Either way, the point is, people need to get a grip and tone down the developer fandom rhetoric, for it does nothing but breed resentment among the wider cRPG community.
Here a thing. I have not seen a single topic either on steam, reddit, or on the official forums of other games shouting that they should be like dos-2 or should not exist. But opposite i see a lot, even a HELL LOT. So don't play the victim here and address it to someone else but certainly not to the Larian fan. They didn't start it and they don't have to finish it.
Not to pick on either of you... but this sort of typifies online interactions these days. People divide into tribes naturally and very quickly and then argue endlessly and mostly fruitlessly about silly things.
Nobody started THIS... it started when our ancestors thousands of years ago first learned to talk (or when Eve ate the apple if you are of religious inclination). Best we can hope for now is that people stop falling into this trap over and over and over.