Didn't Swen outright say an expansion was extremely unlikely due to spells being OP and/or difficult to manage in a video game between lvl13-20 in 5e?
Did he really? Man they are so stubbornly set in their ways that combat needs to be exactly A and B, and never X.
https://www.pcgamer.com/baldurs-gate-3-expansion-interview/I should've linked it before. He didn't say it was impossible, but it's also likely they haven't put much thought into it beyond looking at what spells/abilities were available from lvl12 onward, deciding on 12 as the cap, then running with that. Seems like something that they could put some more thought in and work around, but being so close to release, they don't want to commit to it.