It does seem a little strange to be policing oneself in a game like this. I don’t recall ever doing so in the previous games.
I can totally understand doing homebrew restrictions from a loreful,thematic or common sense (like taking Lae’Zel’s armour) perspective but relinquishing the use of what seems to be primarily Larian’s homebrew would suggest that they have erred in including some of those mechanics in the first place?