What if mage hand could pick up objects and pick pockets?
Funnily enough, 5e already has that in Mage Hand Legerdemain, a feature of the Arcane Trickster subclass, but apparently it was not implemented in BG3. I hope they fix it eventually.
I think BG2 is a great example of how to make a big city your base hub as well as a place with evolving stories that progress in parallel to the main plot. Wouldn't mind seeing BG4 follow a similar structure.
