I don't think anyone's talking about shackling them to the project. I understand that they're burned out and the quality of work would reflect that if they continued working on it now. This was notable to me just with the new romance "ending scenes" where all the companions get the same recycled animations.
But the final act of the game is... I guess I'm becoming a broken record here but it's poorly structured and the reason it's so easy for people to believe there was hastily cut content is because it feels so patchy. Especially when compared to the rest of the game. The drop in quality is immediately apparent. And this is far from an uncommon criticism.
If there was some kind of organized community effort to present this feedback to Larian I don't think it would be without support because the game has had a passionate online player base since early access. Larian has been very clear that they don't intend to work on the game again, and I don't see that changing anytime soon because they are so excited to move forward, but maybe they'll consider working on a definitive edition after some time has passed.
