"a bit much " ? What is supposed to happen in acts 2-4 ? Do we fight actual gods in the last act, having left behind measly mindflayers, dragons, beholders and so on ? What would be wrong with a bit of an excitement curve ? Why not slowly ease us into it ?
I know nothing I type on here will change anything about the game, they already have my money and if there are people who enjoy BG3 - good for them. I can only repeat how disappointed I am.
You don't fight the Mindflayer or the dragon, that might come later. Your enemies are mostly goblins, hostile wildlife and later on some bosses, a hag among them. Nothing too over the top. The harder enemies come later, when you are at the end of EA and levelled up, but dragons and Mindflayer are not among them.
"We are all stories in the end. Just make it a good one."