All I'm getting from your post is " Here Larian, have a free pass " I'll mentioned something I mentioned earlier. If a AAA game company released a game with this much cut content or said all three parts of the city would be playable in a developer update and then quietly kicked it to the curb, that developer would be hung, draw and quartered by people as a result, Larian have done the same and your response is literally " they get a free pass they're passionate about BG " being passionate doesn't excuse what they've done they actively done.
And yes, Larian could of delayed the game if they so choose, they are Independent and not beholden to angry investors to quite the same level as the big AAA companies are, if they were as passionate as you like to believe they would of delayed the game so they could have more time to create the best possible experience this game could be and thoroughly test content so we don't have the problems we have now ie Act 3, buggy companions etc.
Looks like you're the one who knows all about their finances, problems, contracts etc, tell us then why they decided to cut so much content...
To me, it's obvious, that at least Swen care a lot about BG, which means he didn't want to cut his brilliant in half, brake promises etc, but running independent studio, developing such complicated game is a huge risk and my bet is smth went not how they expected, so the only decent solution was to release it earlier and polish cutted content to introduce it in Definitive Edition...we'll see.
