I would agree with you on that point, if not for the fact that Swen himself stated in one of his interviews, that Larian had full autonomy during the development of BG3 and WoTC didn't force them to change anything. Now, if Swen spoke the truth, is a completely different matter. Personally, I find it extremely unlikely, that WoTC didn't at least try to meddle with their corpo-autoritharian ways.
I think that WotC could not have *forced* Larian to include it. But if Larian has an interest in continuing the Baldurs Gate series, they will still need WotC approval for it. So I assume they got the info that WotC wants that change and then considered going along with it.
Agreeing with the floating ASIs but not with changing the way the hybrid-races work.
But that is just my interpretation of the informations.
