I see this in a different manner. I know, I'm a broken disk for someone, but it wouldn't be fun otherwise. I'm not talking about us, I'm talking about the devs. Think about it. You spent your life working your ass and building your skills, becoming among the bests of the bests, up to the point that you have finally the chance to give your words about something and suddendly you are just a gear because you have to implement the things as RAW as possible. It would be boring, it would't have sense to have worked so much for not being able to give your vision about something you love.
This is a totally valid perspective, yet only if in doing so the devs respect their audience and consult with the creators of the source material BOTH. It is very easy to deviate enough to make the material unbearable to the passionate fans. As I've already said, the homebrew changes Larian were cooking behind the scenes just dropped like a bomb out of nowhere 3 weeks before release. More so, they were dropped after a huge shift for the general audience of the game to be the team 'bear sex witnesses'. There was no blog, no nothing throughout the whole EA, that would have properly explained these changes to be good or at least not that bad.
