My problem is that the game kinda signals that it's trying to be Dragon Age, with its free and open protagonist, as opposed to the more defined Mass Effect and Shepard. I think it ends up taking the worst of both worlds frankly.
I absolutely agree with you about PoE. I did multiple playthroughs of both PoE1&2 and managed to roleplay as very different characters, with different background goals and ideologies and they all worked really well.
We will see how BG3 will end up looking at the end. I am still pinning any issues with protagonist and companion writing squarely on the shoulder of origins - you can have blank protagonist. You can have a shared protagonist like Shepard. You can have predefined protagonist. You can have a group of protagonists. Really you can do whatever you think suits your game best. What Larian tries to do, is to do everything at once, and I just don't think this is a feasible goal.
