After 3 years of EA are we to believe Larian suddenly implemented this VERY simple DOS2 like change at the last moment as a stroke of genius? As an answer to game testing and demand by BG3 fans? Of course not. D&D alone doesn't sell that well. So we need sexy bears. Buffed races stats to whatever. Freedom in multiclassing. DOS2 did this in spades (minus the bear part) and casual gamers loved it.
It just reminded me of the bowl of goat's milk that old Winthrop used to put outside his door every evening for the dust demons. He said the dust demons could never resist goat's milk, and that they would always drink themselves into a stupor and then be too tired to enter his room..
