well as long as you don't start another game with the same name as the last game i.e, Tal things don't go totally tits up
I do like the new way of displaying saves grouped by character but it doesn’t share either of the main benefits I found with profiles, ie being able to have different mod configurations and preventing accidental overwriting of quick saves and auto saves. Okay, you can make sure you manually save at key points rather than relying on quick saves, but that worked just as well in previous versions when you didn’t create different profiles.
I hope that what we have now is a transitional state and that Larian will at the very least implement true separation between saves for different characters for the full release.
That said, I did start a new game with a character of the same name (I decided to tweak her cantrips) and the game
didn’t group those saves together, so it looks like it can cope with that scenario.