BG2 was and still is great, not going to lie. At least in what I expected from it. It's easy to look at it through rose-colored glasses, but the strength of Black Isle/Bioware games were the companions and NPCs. The background story was a generic hero journey, that much I realized all those years after, but the companions we took on our adventure made the game diferent each time.
So yes, I believe BG3 will be as good if not better in that regard - one of the few that really matter to me
