I actually read both of these in the game just a few days ago in my now finished playthrough and honestly... I found it odd immediately as I was reading them how a cunning and cautious diplomat such as Gortash would be so stupid to directly be writing to these people in the manner that he does, literally creating incriminating evidence against him. I understand where he comes from and what he went through in life, but that's not how one becomes an Archduke of Baldur's Gate
So having read both versions I honestly quite like the new letters. They're far more diplomatic and cautious, while still maintaining his iconic cunning between the lines.
Anyway not all developers work on the exact same things. The ones responsible for gameplay bugs are not responsible for writing the game's lore. And Baldur's Gate 3 never really left Early Access, so all these things being changed, shaped, improved and even added are simply a sign that it's still being treated as an Early Access. Which in my opinion is good, imagine if they left the game as it is right now. I dread to even imagine.
As for the images; they have to end on their file extensions such as .jpeg/.jpg/.png and such. Twitter seems to be one of the sites that use their own unique systems which don't display these urls properly, so unfortunately you can't embed those. You'd have to upload them to some other site and then embed them, or dig through the Twitter's code by clicking F12 and finding the image's direct source.
I can appreciate your opinion on the changes and how it is better, though I disagree (obviously lol.) I would say the majority of correspondence the player can find that is meant to be classified communication between major political players reads like this- overly familiar and incriminating, if this were in real life. The Guild, the Zhentarim, all sorts of Patriar communications and Fist communications around the Gate and Wyrmrock... But that never stood out to me because the original Baldur's Gate games had equally ridiculous, but ultimately very fun, writing that focused more on injecting some humor and strong character voice. That's the thing that charms me about these games.
I do understand the ones working on bugs are not going to be the same people working on writing, but it does say something about the priorities of the team and implementing these changes to in-game books/letters does take time away from other coding work, I would imagine. Resources are not finite even if it is different members of a team working on different things. And I really don't think Baldur's Gate should be treated as if it's still in Early Access, because it isn't. It's a fully-released game, albeit clearly unfinished due to rush. I understand adding things to it that were meant to be released at launch but were scrapped for time. But making major random changes to these smaller details after 5, nearly 6 months, after fans have had half a year to become attached to the writing, and after winning so many Narrative/writing awards? Makes no sense to me, personally.
Also thank you for the advice on image posting, I was able to figure out it was an issue with the Twitter URL format.
