I don't necesarily see the problem here, to be honest. It does go against how I'd want to experience the game, however so I'll never touch it.
That’s the right attitude. 👍🏼 I can absolutely see why anybody wouldn’t want to make Minsc a wizard. I just don’t understand why so many people are against Larian giving me the option to make Minsc a wizard. I am very much looking forward to arcane lore master Minsc.
All right...I have to admit that has some crazy sort of appeal. If you keep his original INT :P
The question I'd ask is: does his story make sense that way? We don't know if he even has a signficant story but I'd say Shadowheart makes no sense except as a cleric of Shar, Wyll makes no sense except as a warlock, and Gale makes no sense except as an arcane spellcaster.
I am absolutely okay if Minsc’s story doesn’t make sense as a wizard. In most playthroughs I’ll just be making Minsc a barbarian unless there is some advantage to multi-classing him as a ranger. But when I make him a wizard, it’s purely for the sake of absurdity. I want big, dumb Minsc yelling “butt-kicking for goodness,” as he throws fireballs.
I probably won’t ever respec most of the characters, but I might make Karlach a Paladin if I have Minsc as a barbarian, and might play around with Astarion. Maybe make him a dex fighter or a bard.
The characters who have the strongest narrative-class ties I will probably never respec, but why not just give people that option if they want it? Larian could go through for each character and try and determine which classes, if any, make sense for respecing. Or, they could just say it’s your playthrough; do what you want.
If anybody changes Shadowhearts class and is turned off by the lack of reactivity, they will discover this very quickly and can just switch back and never do it again.