In my opinion the primary reason the stats from Point buy is so low is because the stat cap is 20. You cannot naturally raise these stats beyond 20 without powerful magic items or being a high level.
This is very much a 5e thing and not something Larian added for BG3. Yes they will be adding the dice option for those wishing to go that route.
Maybe there will be a mod to freely edit your statistics to whatever you want or even edit the Racial statistics like a particular official book suggests. Until then, starting with 16 in your primary stat is pretty much ideal at level 1.
Sounds really reasonable to me and i could accept it. On the other hand, encountering player race NPCs on the same level that have stats that go way beyond that feels still off as i said before. As mentioned, i will check that 'cause i never counted points till now just had this "wtf" when examining.
Or has anyone already verified truth or error of that?
