Bg2 is 10x as good Bg3. It's not even close. Nice try.
Grognards with nostalgia glasses.
BG2 is a text based adventure compared to BG3.
It was a blast back in the day, but does not hold a candle to BG3's modern complexity.
Spell caster classes (wiz/cler/druid) feel extremely limited and gimped with the limitation of spell tiers to 6
Most D&D Paper and Pencil campaigns end at around 12th level.
If you don't think the spellcasters of BG3 are powerful then you are playing them wrong.