I am extremely surprised to see Paladins being so popular and I honestly can't understand why. The Paladins are pretty broken in BG3 as the game makes it extremely difficult not to break your pact...unless all those people went in intentionally planning to become oathbreakers, which seems doubtful. I suspect a lot of people who chose Paladin were casuals who didn't really know what they were getting themselves into.
The following classes all make sense though...Sorcerers, Warlocks, Rogues, and Bards are all amazing face classes, and face is the role that can only be properly filled by the player that is insanely important in BG3. These are all the players who knew what they were getting themselves into. Beyond that Monks and Druids are indeed the worst classes, you'll never catch me arguing that, and the CLeric is in last place purely because most will have Shadowheart in their party for the whole game, and there isn't much reason to run with two clerics in a party.
From the races I am surprised to see humans and dragonborns so highly picked...I understand that people may be most comfortable playing as humans or may want to be the amazing looking dragonborns but both are mechanically terrible races. Also no idea how half-elves ended up ahead of elves when they are significantly worse. Elves and Drow really are where it's at for BG3. Surprised to see Githyanki so low down though admittedly while the race is pretty good, it's not good for the face classes so that devalues it quite a bit...but they should still be well above the dwarves, halflings, and gnomes.
But overall I am pleasantly surprised to see that all the sensible choices are among the top even with the top spot or two taken by strange selections.
