I really don't mind the respec thing, except for origin companions. I really hope they didn't make their narrative incoherent for the sake of freedom. I'd really hate to see more inconsistencies between story/gameplay in BG3, especially because there were solutions to change these characters enough (eg SH subclass).
The new races bonus is also a huge mistake in my opinion as it will drastically reduce the races uniqueness. A while ago we complained about disengage as a BA / highground adv-dis / backstab and so on because it reduced the class uniqueness a lot... it tooks 2 years to change that and now they are doing the same with races.
And I would HATE if multiclassing was so OP. Multiclassing is and should remain an "advanced" rule for experienced players. Thanks to the respec thing even noob players like me will be able to try many things without consequences... but I don't want multiclassing to always be the optimal choice for building characters. I want to play a full class without it being considered by the games rules as the weakest choice.
This tends to prove that Larian's developper have great ideas in mind but that they are totally unable to balance anything without players feeedback. I will certainly not giving up on Larian's game as I already know that I'd LOVE BG3 no matter what happen at this point... but I can really understand the thread's point.
EA was very frustrating to me in the end due to bad communication / no engagement towards the community and they were too slow to change things we reported day 1 (and they haven't changed some... like shove despite the consensus about it).
I also really dislike some of their design choices to be honnest and don't get AT ALL why some things are not done differently. I have a lot to complain about in BG3 but I already love it and I can't wait to play.
I just hope that Larian will listen to me A LOT MORE for BG4
