Changing the Nautiloid for brevity I get, but honestly why were they so keen on trimming that down if the back half of the game is unfinished? Surely you'd prefer to stall players for as long as possible.
Reading about the daisy stuff as someone who avoided EA is pretty disappointing, it sounds more interesting than the guardian stuff I've seen so far. But maybe my opinion will change.
In fact a friend of mine who had been playing through EA kind of set me up with the expectation that the Guardian is probably not someone you want to listen to unless you want to go all in on mindflayer stuff and it really distorted my expectations.
I think I have discovered two more pieces of cut content...
I think shadowhearts conversation with you in the tomb, the exclamation above her head, just before you get to withers crypt... was removed... for no reason... again?
And the woman talking to the bird in the druid grove, asking the bird to find halsin, was removed... for no reason, but she still talks like she was talking to a bird...
I don't know if any of that is cut or merely conditional. But the bird confused me too, because if you talk to the bird, he has nothing to do with her. I've also not had any shadowheart specific convos in the withers tomb, unless maybe you need to rest in there or something.
