This game in no way matches the love and mastery of the original games, although they are quite dated.
I know you're not alone in feeling that way, but personally I have a very different take. I played and loved BG1 and 2 when they first released and have replayed them regularly since, and came to BG3 because of those rather than Larian. (I have played D:OS but it took me three goes to actually finish, and I've not yet got beyond the start of act 2 of D:OS2.) And BG3 is everything I could wish for from a BG successor. Okay, that's hyperbole as nothing could be everything I wished for, but it's so much more even than I hoped. For me it captures the spirit of BG1 in particular. And while I'd freely admit that BG2 made loads of improvements over its predecessor, there are actually many ways in which I have more affection for BG1 so that suits me down to the ground.
It would totally derail this thread to go into more detail on this point, but I just think it's important for us all to have different perspectives offered. And they're all, of course, perfectly valid ways to react to the game.
"You may call it 'nonsense' if you like, but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!"
