Greetings!

I've played EA up to about halfway through a certain enemy encampment and I've decided to stop playing until the full version comes out. I'm not sure how far that is in terms of all that's available in EA, but I'm assuming not super far because I've heard about going to the underdark and that kind of stuff.

Anyway, I was hoping those with much more experience with the game might help me decide what character/class to go with in my first official playthrough. I have several "canon" characters from my own story-writing and PnP DnD experiences:

"Al'Al" (short for Aluando the Altruistic) - Lore Bard - One of my favorites because he was a disposable character made up at the last second to offer guidance to a bunch of younger players in PnP DnD, but they loved having him in the party so much, and I ended up loving RPing him so much more than I thought I would, that he is now a mainstay.

"Paladin" - Oath of Devotion Paladin - Another off the cuff character (a paladin literally named "Paladin"!), this time when I was DMing. It started as an NPC rescue mission, but the party ended up liking his particular brand of "honorable self-sacrificing lawful stupidness" so much that he became a regular NPC companion who pushed the story along!

"Jonathan" - Gloom Stalker Ranger - I've never played this character in DnD, but he was the first fantasy character I ever wrote about: an Aragorn type character, but even more gritty and dour, and obviously without the messianic backstory.

Now, I know you can't really directly compare Lore Bards and Devotion Paladins and Gloom Stalker Rangers, they fill wildly different roles in a DnD party, but if you were to choose between those three classes for your first playthrough, which would it be and why? Also, to be completely honest, as much as I love DnD, I wouldn't say my experience in BG3 EA has been super easy. It's a pretty hard game for someone who is, I guess, somewhat casual like I am. So, with that knowledge, which do you think would yield the most fun experience based on what you've seen of the game?

Thanks for your help!