The company spent a lot of resources to implement this additional content, which did not allow them to fix technical issues in the game in a timely manner….
Stuff costs money. If you think it doesn't then you are the one who should be providing proof. The correct default assumption should be that all things cost money, and all things must be paid for. There is, after all, no free lunch.
Yup. It's simple common sense. All of the cinematics, including voice acting, was easily well over 50% of the cost of making BG3. And the sex-related stuff is a pretty good chucnk of all that. So it is very much a safe bet that a lot of other things were left/dropped from the game to accommodate the sex-related content and cinematics.
So the voice actors, sound engineers, performance directors, motion capture crew, etc would have been fixing programming bugs if they weren't spending time on recording romance scenes?
Seems more likely they were just different teams, doing different jobs to me.
Or ... here's a thought: Larian would not have hired those people in the first place (or not hired as many of them, or not given them as many work-hours), and instead hired/funded more people focused on the other aspects of the game. That's how production works, not just in making a video game but in any economic enterprise.
