It's certainly the most successful title that eventually came off of the Kickstarter/indie revival starting in about 2012ish, ture. Which is kind of ironic in a sense, as it's all come full cirlce with BG3. This game, as it currently is, wouldn't exist were it not for that revival.
At least not this way (I really don't think that modern-day Bioware are really much interested in either re-visting Baldur's Gate -- nor isometric/top down, tactical combat RPGs based on D&D. Even if you count Dragon Age:Origins into that same fold -- by the time the second game was a thing, a few people such as Brent KNowles already left for reason.) http://blog.brentknowles.com/2011/03/09/dragon-age-2-2/)
