You think the Dragon Age games were worse, really?
I did. I find listing items one by one without strong visual identity becomes really unhelpful once volume of items wracks up. I abandoned my Inquisition play through mainly because I couldnt be asked to deal with constantly overflowing inventory and just tediousness of crafting, sorting and equipping items.
Though my main dislike is how half-assed the items are - it's my most hated fake-RPG thing of having very few weapons types that then constantly come with incremental improvements or variations. If I swap equipment I want to feel the difference, not do 10% damage so I can take on enemies who have 10% more health.
But to come back to the point: I will definitely take BG3 inventory UI over any of Dragon Ages, yes.
I am not sure of there inventory I straight up like - Deus Exes perhaps, because of how limited they are and actually tie into your play style decision. I also thing that's to a lesser extend what BG1&2 achieved. Inventory was so limited that one had to decide what will be useful for each character, rather then carrying too much, and then at some point running out of carrying capacity and having to do sort pile of stuff and make sense of it.
I didn't mind PoE1&2 stash - it was easy to figure out what is worth keeping and what is not, though without having to make decision on what to carry O so think it is too easy to just stick to one weapon that works and let all the cool toys the game drops rust in the stash.
