The game succeeds as having more depth, reactivity, choice, voicing and graphics than any game in years.
It's not as wide as PoE2, but every inch of it has more in it, doesnt have the tactics of solastra but thats all solastra had and it has close enough, and et etc
Is it perfect no, but just, you can't say it hasn't done what it set out to and been better received than any CRPG in decades?