I'll just add that with the way the storytelling is set up, being so epic and all from the get-go, the game is SCREAMING for high level NPC intervention.
You have devils, mind flayers, githyanki with dragons.. everyone is after your low level party. After escaping Hell, your rookie team dives headlong into the Underdark. There are SO MANY ways everything could go south very quickly even for a more experienced party. It seems only inevitable you get into a mess deep enough only a legendary hero like Minsc or Jaheira, or an Archdruid, could pull you out of.
I hope Larian are not going to completely miss this opportunity they themselves created since somebody thinks it's a better idea to de-level and reset these characters for whatever reason.
