I am someone who never played a single turn-based game prior to BG and avoided them like the plague while internally screaming "WHY WOULD SOMEONE WASTE THEIR TIME ON BORING TURN-BASED GAMEPLAY WHEN REAL-TIME EXISTS?!"
Well, I was never more wrong in my life...
Fell in love with BG3 instantly for all the right reasons when Early Access started, so much so it converted me from a real-time to a turn-based lover. Which is why I also got DOS2 and then got DOS1 as well because of how much I loved DOS2. So it was a chain-reaction of turn-based games back to back which all started with BG3, because of which I'm now also considering getting BG1&2 to play through too.
So it had nothing to do with the shallow reasons of sex and monkey brain neurons activating.
Larian's games are simply great and widely loved RPGs for good reason. One may love'em or hate'em, but their biggest advantage is that they are accessible and quite unique turn-based games because they do not come with that typically boring turn-based feeling from which most people do run away from. And most importantly do not require a DnD Bible to be read three times over while scribbling notes and holding a calculator in hand just to enjoy it.
It's a DnD experience somewhat mainstreamed and accessible to people of all kinds, even those who may just be starting to experience it for the first time ever. Larian is unique in this regard because of how they approach their games to create a fun adventure, which evidently a ton of people do love and enjoy because a turn-based game absolutely annihilated this year's game awards and keeps maintaining hundreds of thousands of players each day. It speaks for itself.
Naturally that doesn't mean that BG3 is the pinnacle of gaming or whichever other superlative "hype gamers" like to overblow. What it means is that it's a really damn great solid game, which is why it stands out so much in today's day and age of gaming because gaming became so perversely rancid with all the utterly disappointing shit the other companies have been dumping for years now. Gaming stopped being gaming and instead became a corporate bloodsucking business infested with micro-transactions, sub-par products carrying premium price tags, battle-passes, live services, subscriptions etc...
BG3 is simply a reminder of simpler golden age of gaming when RPGs used to be fun, huge, deep and high quality because they were made and treated with love and care... without any micro-transactional bullshit and corporate meddling trying to squeeze every single consumer dry down to their last penny.
