I want to say that while I'm not sure exactly where the discussion can go from here, this is the only active thread here discussing Larian's decision to cease working on the game beyond some features and bug fixes after patch 7. I think many of the criticisms and suggestions made regarding changes outside of those things are futile without that context, and without the context that they legally can't do much beyond that because they're no longer contracted with wotc.
So I think it's good to have an active thread discussing the desire to see them revisit that decision in the future, along with reasons why that desire is there through a critical lens.
For (a commonly mentioned) example advertising the upper city as an explorable area two weeks before release, whether it was meant to be there for all of act 3 or only the original cut epilogue, was at best unintentionally misleading players. It was something players were told would be in the game shortly before they were able to play it, only for it not to be there. I would argue it's why quests and interactions in the city feel disjointed, and I think it's incumbent upon them as a company to include what they said would be in their product. But instead they've decided to leave that promise permanently unfulfilled because they're so eager to move on to future projects and leave BG3 behind for good. They've cut off their own ability to make the product what they said it would be upon release and I think that's a decision worthy of harsh criticism.
This is just one example and while I don't think substantial changes like it need to be worked on right now or in the very near future, it's something they should be open to setting right by revisiting the contract with wotc at some point. If they would express any openness to the possibility of doing that I would be happy.
