Yes, Red Queen has it, Larian doesn't have anything on NWN's UI as in, as much as people complain about the UI in BG3, it's no where near as bad as NWN. I'd agree with Warlocke on the story in NWN, which I remember being mostly by-the-numbers, when I said I'd sunk serious time into NWN, that's mostly through all the modules people have made for it.
The higher level you get in 3e, it's hats upon hats, more and more ungainly. Pathfinder, which people sometimes call 3.75, I don't think did much to mitigate that. This is mostly what I was referring to when I said that each edition dissatisfies in its own way.
If it's any consolation, The Red Queen, the difficulty and/or tedium of the combat in WotR has come up often enough. Here's one I remember being a fun example of how a fairly simple encounter can play out without any of the "safeties" on, naturally, actual combat doesn't start until 4 minutes in.
this is what real verisimilitude in RPGs looks like
I remember personally slamming my head against the wall for a while against the Playful Darkness (I think that's the one)
