And yes no I'll say it, BG2 absolutely was better than BG3, best DnD game to this day with no contest.
I don't even know where to start with that entire take. Your argument amounts to "well they could have done it the really terrible way BG2 did so therefore BG2 better". Possibly the single worst Baldur's Gate related take I have ever seen. BG3 does infinitely more and infinitely better than BG2. Would I like to be able to go to level 20 and experience those kinds of power levels, sure, but the way BG2 did is absolutely NOT the way. It's fair to say BG1 and 2 were good videogames as long as long as you don't consider them D&D games, because they failed horribly at doing D&D...but they were not even close to being as good as BG3 both in terms of videogames and D&D.
