You weren't a serious BG player unless you'd spent at least more than an hour re-rolling your stats! The exquisite and hollowing horror of clicking past a better score than you had saved... it was stuff of nightmares. It worked, because all rolls were bad, no matter what you got you needed more, BG char creation was the drug!
BG stat rolling plus BG3 soundtrack would mean happiness for hours before even flopping out the pod.
To be fair, this was a side affect of 2nd editions non-linear stat progression. The difference between a 15 and an 18 was as large (larger) than the difference between 10 and 18 in 5e, and for the most part you got nothing for a stat lower than 15. Rolling just once meant that you were going to play a 15 minute peasant walking simulator, followed by a quick peasant death simulator.
In any case, I absolutely do intend to roll for stats in BG3 when its possible. And if they limit that I'll install a mod that removes the limit. 5e balance means you don't really NEED the extra stats from rolling to play the game, but it also means that the extra stats don't make you that much more powerful in the long run (just an easier level 1-3).
