This was discussed over 2 years ago I think. I think they had plenty time...then again what we got in EA is pretty much 80% of game stuff already set in stone it seems.
So Larian can make these incredible amazing and advanced dialogue of a game, incredible motion capture tech, but can't have conversations simply shift to the main character when appropriate?

It just reminded me of the bowl of goat's milk that old Winthrop used to put outside his door every evening for the dust demons. He said the dust demons could never resist goat's milk, and that they would always drink themselves into a stupor and then be too tired to enter his room..