Scenario: breaking down the door of the burning inn.
That scene always bothered me anyway, it's way too Macguffin-waiting-for-the-brave-adventurers. As a DM of tabletop games, if a group of burly and well trained soldiers were trying to bash down a door to a burning building to save someone, I would just let them!!! Collective strength, hacking weapons, and an urgent will would most certainly get that door open. Not to mention it seriously surprised me that nobody on that team had either Thunderwave or Create Water, there seems to be a fair amount of magic in the world as Larian sees it. That's just one of the many ways a video game will never be able to fully and completely replicate the tabletop experience, because it doesn't have the luxury of the improvisational imagination of a human being at the helm.
You are absolutely right, though, about some of the weird restrictions and reality breaking inconsistencies where STR checks are concerned in BG3. If STR is a factor, high STR should be required before certain checks could even be made, and class should have zero to do with who can make the check. Sure a raging Barbarian gets advantage on STR checks, so they have a better chance, but anyone with a STR score at or above a requisite number should be able to attempt feats of strength. Hopefully that's just one more thing that EA is supposed to help get right.
