I happen to love PoE2 and think it's absolutely fantastic. I actually enjoy it more than the original even, I also really enjoyed The Outer Worlds and am looking forward to its sequel and to Avowed. And beyond that, talking about PoE and Pathfinder, not every game has to be the biggest thing, nor should they be. Both in terms of scope or popularity. Making the best game possible doesn't translate into making it the biggest. A lot of games benefit from being smaller, and in contrast a lot of games suffer for being made bigger than they should have been, and would have been better if the devs had allowed them to be somewhat smaller in scope. I think every AAA game should absolutely be polished and tested and complete in a way far too many are not (I also think it' presumptuous to assume BG3 is gonna come out a pristine work, not that I think it will be a buggy mess, but best not to tempt fate) but I think gaming, AAA gaming in particular would be better and healthier if everyone from executives to customers internalized the fact that scope doesn't translate to quality.
