I find it problematic to talk about games being immersive, because a process of being immersed is something that depends to a far greater degree on the user than on a product.
I will disagree here. I get what you are saying, but I think one will find it very difficult to argue that Larian makes a good attempt at drawing players into their game world. Sure, immersion is more of a buzzword, but it's been backed with many specific complains - like entering stealth turns characters into Quicksilver, maps space doesn't support the story being told, player's lack the feeling of passing time while it apparently does so in the narrative etc. And with BG IP having traditionally put a lot of emphasis on it's narrative, players expect better in that regard. It's not even that BG3 isn't "realistic" enough - it's just that Larian didn't put much effort to make the world feel believable. I have seen competitive online shooters with more narrative consistency and logic then BG3.
