Potion throwing encompasses everything that is wrong ( or great if yo love the following) with the Larian way of doing RPG things.

Non immersive.
Completely unbalanced cheese.
Silly visuals.
"If you don't like it, don't use it" designed mechanics.

So 100% stays for final release.

It just reminded me of the bowl of goat's milk that old Winthrop used to put outside his door every evening for the dust demons. He said the dust demons could never resist goat's milk, and that they would always drink themselves into a stupor and then be too tired to enter his room..