If I'm being honest I have mostly enjoyed the EA BG3 and while it has some technical issues to fix, and I really want to get into the rest of the story, it's a well done game. However, every new version seems to drift further away from the D&D RAW & RAI and closer to just being a generic CRPG with a "Larian" humorist twist and a D&D label. I could go through all the deviations but I think there are plenty (actually a metric f'load) of posts that cover things like the Shove mechanic, Potion Bombs, racial stats, etc. that detailing them again just doesn't make sense. The Balder's Gate franchise has always been a fan favorite not just for the story but for the rules they use, it's a nerd property not really a normie property and nerds like me like the limitations the rules provide. Creativity is born of challenge and rules provide a great deal of that challenge, it's the box we are put in that we break out of not by breaking the rules but by coming up with creative solutions within the rules. Without those limits, with this weird need to make a joke out of everything, infantilize and dumb down rules, all to cater to some "untapped modern audience" that never seems to actually show up with their money, CRPGs just become arcade games and frankly it sucks.

I know this post is late in the game but many of us have been sounding the alarm in this forum all during the EA process and Larian seems to just not care. So I put out this last plea: Please, at least give us the option to play by the RAW (with the few necessary changes because of the realities of making a CRPG), we are the fans that kept this IP alive with our money and time and we deserve some love as well.