Just guessing here, but I think, the game was planned to have more acts and to be released a lot later, maybe x-mas 2025. But than reality hit Larian, maybe running out of money and everything that was somewhat working and was of good quality on its own (as I can't say there is bad or dumb quest in the game) was cramped into act 3 and the game was released as fast as possible. Now we have the situation that act 1 is very polished, especially as they were able to gather a lot of feedback and data from early access, act 2 is quite good, but more or less self contained with first story problems showing (like how does everything in it fit into the overall story) and act 3 is incoherent and unsatisfying.
Now they are trying to fix stuff on the fly, bug fix count should be way over 2.000 by now, they are restoring stuff they couldn't get working but would have been easy to detect during testing e.g. dialogues not triggering at all.
That doesn't explain dumbing down stuff e.g. Daisy vs. Emperor and kinda forgetting about what the game startet in the first place though. As the game is a huge success I have high hopes for definitive edition that is closer to what was envisioned in the first place and if they are scanning these forums they have probably a good idea what people want, kinda early access again, just on a much grander scale.
