Originally Posted by Alealexi
And I completely agree with that. Then there is the ranger which is better to play in BG3 than the PHB version which is why I said that I agree to a degree.

The changes to Ranger are a special case, as that class has been in active development by WotC, and some of the ideas probably came from them instead of Larian.

Overall, though, I do feel that Larian has dumbed down or just ignored a large percent of the PHB, hence "simplified" because there are just fewer and more primitive rule systems.