Thats sadly the BG3 effect.
Larian made money by delivering a broken game and instead catering exclusively to fanfiction writer and shippers by sexualizing everything. So now other companies copy that as its easier to render vaginas than make interesting combat systems.
Before any BG3 effect, there was the
#AssEffect. And Bioware faithfuls demanding to have a little #AssEffect in every game, no matter the type and focus. Some resisted the demand (
and occasionally still do). Others.. not so much. BG being a sequel of a Bioware game, no dice. Full circle, man.
That said: There aren't many blockbusting games that are pitched to a blockbuster game trailer audience via indepth systems. Not that Bioware could have ever done that with any of their games, Dragon Age in particular, mind. Even when their games still received near universal acclaim, they built their games primarily around what their (then) authors cooked up. Everything else was light weight. Something that their former proteges CD Projekt seem to have picked up from them.
