I believe most people are expressing their opinions regarding the game, we should focus more on substantive performance rather than playing word games.
What word games?
1.Incorporating a feature into the game that was supposed to be provided by unofficial mods and only requiring 100g as a cost, isn't this encouraging?
....."supposed to be provided by unofficial mods"....??????
Says who?
"Unofficial mods" also provide "unofficial bug patches" - should Larian also stop fixing those?
"Unofficial mods" also add content, or restore something that was cut (for whatever reason) - should that also be something developers stop doing?
"100 g as a cost" - so? Again, not encouraged or forced to use in any way. What does it matter how much it costs? The "issue" was that it exists, no?
2.Spending 400g to rebuild your team before battle essentially eliminates the challenge from all battles. If this is not considered cheating, then what would be? Is cheating in your concept limited to simply opening the game and instantly win?
Again with this example...who is doing it? And even then, why do you care?
Where is the instant win in that btw?
Do DC somehow get lower every time you respec?
Im being a parrot now with all these question, but I've yet to see a solid answer as to why is that "an insant win" and how is that every single players problem in this single player (with optional co-op) game?
3.I believe that most players who choose to play this role-playing game do care about immersion. Isn't it a fact that arbitrarily changing character settings leads to a loss of immersion?
Yes, and it's their playthrough, in their game, their immersion.
Your POV is that it leads to loss of immersion, their might be that it's the tadpole, or the Emperor, or Bhaal, or the gods, or whatever reason they give themselves.
How about that "4 halfling barbarians" video that went viral? Should we now nerf carrying capacity because no way a person who is 2.5 feet tall can carry so many smokepowder barrels, to blow up the entire Risen Road? Immersion and all...
I'm failing to see how this, which is bothering you and those who share your POV, is the problem of the entire playerbase and Larian?
If you cannot stop thinking about Withers being able to respec every companion, how is that a problem of the game, playerbase and devs?
If something that you do not have to, and clearly are not using, in a single player game, without PvP, any sort of impact from other players (unless in co-op, then thats your friends who you chose to play with) - how is that a problem?
Here's how I "cheated" with respec;
#1 I messed up when multiclassing so I respeced
#2 Messed up with picking feats at a level up, so I went to visit Withers again
#3 I respeced almost every companion to change their abilities the way I thought was better
#4 I respeced some companions classees, because it felt like that class was better than the original - i.e. made Astarion a Bard instead of Rogue
Did I break your immersion with all that? I certainly didn't break mine.