I think people mistake the characters we meet andtheir stories-which are in my opinion genuinely good and very much the best part of the game- with the plot, because the plot is so barebones and rickety. You can see it in how all the things people resonate with in the game has to do with the characters. They are well written, have good stories and arcs (with the exception of Karlach) and even the side characters have a lot of charm. It seems everyone was too dazzled by them to notice that the actual adventure we're all going on is barely functional plot and the story itself is not actually character driven. It's entirely about its plot.
