I always feel like it’s a rush against time when I’m in act 3. It honestly ends up becoming a chore list that I don’t intend on finishing. I only got through it once and I still missed a lot of content, because there’s no structure or flow to it like the other acts do.
I get assaulted by Orin as soon as I step into act 3 but even then there’s no real urgency to rescue the companion she kidnaps. I can still do the other 548 quests and it takes away the point of the kidnapping.

Also I agree with the companions banter and camp scenes just abruptly stopping once we reach the city. Feels like all the bonding between the companions never happened, like we spent all this time together and we have nothing to show for it. Overall, it feels really empty and unfinished, which it is.

It’s also the act where the story really falls flat and has a ton of inconsistencies, contradictions, and lack of companions interactions. It has a lot of dead end quests too
(ie that teifling kid crying about their dead parents with the 2 detectives, I thought it would trigger a quest but it didn’t?)
and there’s way too many things going on at once. If they wanted to emulate what a real city looks and feels like, they did a good job on that lol.