The thing is.. there have been so many D&D CRPG's before this one. None of them needed to break a D&D setting by potion throwing to be great.
Larian feel like they need to inject more and more game into a game, when less was already enough. The silly and overly "gamey" gameplay starts to overshadow the setting and it's credibility. From a D&D title, I expect the world and story to come first and not be undermined by gameplay. I also expect good gameplay, and 5e RAW is very good at that. Better than BG3 with it's inane unnecessary additions, actually.
You can replace [potion throwing] by stealth cones, power shoving or jumping, dipping in candles, nonsensical teleport networks, odd weapon abilities, OP help action, non-spellcasters using scrolls, barrels.. or so many other things.
BG3 just annoys me, seeing how great it could be with less pointless fluff slapped on top of an already good D&D system and setting.
