Originally Posted by The Composer
It's actually more common for most players to keep the party linked, thus it never becomes an issue for them. Some just separates one character to be combat initiator and the remaining group of 3 stays linked. Actually separating all four party members and positioning them individually in preparation before combat is very rare across the board.
This completely matches my expectations but I'm curious; where does this data come from? Did Larian share party linkage metrics from BG3 somewhere? Or just with you? Or is this from (public or otherwise) DOS1&2 data?