Greyghost and Wormerine
You may be right that we may not see it but if we don't I will say that Larian ignored one of the most popular threads on it's forums. Don't get me wrong, you may be correct but I tend to irritable when people (not you) encourage me to limit my imagination and my requests to what is possible, probably or easily achievable.
If Larian doesn't deliver I'm prepared to say they screwed up.
We'll see - I'll play the game however it turns out and I'll have fun doing it. Do I think the game will be a true successor to BG 2? No. Do I hope to be proven wrong? Clearly, because I'm still here.