I totally agree, they earned every single award they got.
For me all the sex content has nothing to do with it. They made a damm good game. True now, true 25 years ago with BG1. That didn't need sex. For me in BG3 it downgraded the gameplay and immersion, even trying to keep it at a minimum. Most of the sex and romance scenes are cringy as hell and look bad (to me!). I am very happy for you that you could find healing in it.
BG2 in 2001 saved my life in a time of my life were I contemplated suicide.
It just reminded me of the bowl of goat's milk that old Winthrop used to put outside his door every evening for the dust demons. He said the dust demons could never resist goat's milk, and that they would always drink themselves into a stupor and then be too tired to enter his room..
