The thing is, we know that there are [tag]s for each religion available to clerics, specific to the paladin class, with unique dialogue options associated with them. Apparently there are already one or more mods that restore this feature. So that work was already done or well underway months ago-we know this from the datamined stuff. For whatever reason, Larian decided to do a 180 and remove all faith-related dialogue and instead we have the oath tags. But they did a bit of a hack job, which is why sometimes it seems to think you are a follower of a god (sometimes a specific god, like Tyr or Lolth) in dialogue.
From a code standpoint-as you put it- it actually looks like they made *more* work for themselves if this is indicative of the final state because they did a large amount of work giving paladins dialogue options comparable to the clerics and then completely removed them and started from scratch.
And if this is intended to be inclusive (at the expense of the setting and lore) than it falls flat, because it actively excludes those who *do* want to play a paladin follower of a deity, as is traditional for the Realms.
