I wouldn't blame Larian to not want to deviate from their most successful formula, especially is the said formula allowed them to turn a niche genre into the most popular, critically acclaimed and profitable game of its category in at least the past 10 years.
What? cRPGs as a whole are still niche. Unless this is just awkward wording, because yes, DOS2 is the best selling cRPG in the past 10 years. DOS2's reach is still a drop in the bucket compared to many turn-based JRPGs also released over the past decade though.
Yes, I never pretended DoS2 is in competition with other RPG genres. I just said that it is arguably the only mainstream CRPG of this decade.
But again also entirely dependant on your definition of cRPG and which games fall into that definition.
Skyrim was released in 2011, which makes it the same decade as DOS2 (2017). Any definition of cRPG that doesn't include Skyrim is just cherry picking to make a point.
Note that I am not claiming anything about the relative merits of Skyrim vs DOS2, just arguing that you cannot call DOS2 the only mainstream CRPG of its decade when Skryim exists.
