WoTR is better in every regard except the acting of the dialogue to me. Swarms are fine if you know how to fight them. Buffing can admittedly get quite annoying except when using one of the mods that make it easier to execute. But BG 3 has annoyances like the camera, party movement, small party size and things like the absurdly broken shove mechanics that are just as annoying.
I beg to differ... Swarm is non-sense... Just pray that your AOE spells did sufficient damage to kill them... And swarm can slip pass your tank blocking the doorway...
Just pure luck, no strategy... In Kingmaker, already frustrated with the swarm mechanics but Kingmaker is still acceptable to me as the swarm battle is not as common as WOTR. Thus only get frustrated for that few fights...
BG3 harpy is annoying to me too... But it's only 1 battle only.... Imagine if 10% of the combat in BG3 had encounters that can lure you and you can only prayed that your RNG is good to you, that's what WOTR is to me... Note for those fighting harpy, summon raven is very useful in that battle... And pray that they will not target that kid... Many times, I reload because that kid died...