Minimap has been criticised many times, and many of us wanted an ability to remove it. I hear Larian made it somehow useful now, so we will see if it brings anything of value, I felt no need for it during EA.
They make games for everyone and the fact is, absolute majority of Modern players are casuals who want to relax and enjoy gameplay as it is.
And now we can bring Elden Ring as counter example. Excessive UI is a shortcut to bypass good level/quest design.
That said, I didn’t necessarily feel BG3 has been suffering from that. Larian very much expects players to pay attention to the maps, and is happy to withhold information. UI tends to be heavy handed, but I don’t think it necessarily reveals more info than it should.
