Regardless, Larian would have been foolish to NOT cater to their biggest audience with BG3. Honestly, after playing DOS2 - haven't finished it yet - I think they have actually done a rather good job at trying to maintain a delicate balance between non-RPGers and hard core RPGers. Sure, many of us hard core RPGers are not happy, but then again there are those non-RPGers who do gripe about the RPG elements, dice rolls, etc.
But, overall, the audience is happy, and that's amazing. Most RPGers and nons are expressing that they really love the game, and that's a feat in and of itself.
Well... I THINK that's the case anyway. Seems like it.