It is. Larian make 5e actually fun instead of boring slog it is in tabetop.
Incidentally, your personal (and frankly irrelevant) contempt for D&D is not enough to make the analogy pertinent.
But even putting this aside, your argument would hold more water in isolation, if it wasnt' that we are all experiencing what Larian is making with rules and balances. And nine times out of ten is a mess.
I mean, they joke themselves about how THEIR implementation of metamagic "entirely breaks the game".
