Then by those stipulations, BG3 isn't a D&D game. Because it uses Larian's homebrew.
So according to you nobody has ever played D&D.
Because not in P&P and even less so in computer games anyone ever plays the unmodified D&D rules.
Not according to me, according to so called "D&D players"
Since kanisatha said that all these other D&D games were not considered D&D games for due to similar stipulations (Despite these same people apparently liking NWN2 with the same exact situation)
Larian's homebrew makes BG3 feel less like a D&D game and more like a Divinity game. Contrasting to all these other so called "Not D&D" games that actually retain their feel of being a D&D game because they're more accurate to their rulesets.
At a meeting of mostly p&p roleplayers end of last year, almost all had played BG3, but most didn’t actually play D&D.
So there are a lot more than just the D&D players who are interested in the game due to being a well-made RPG.
Which is kind of my point. It being a D&D game is not the main reason for the its popularity.
It being a AAA RPG likely did more than the D&D aspect (Though, much of the AAA budget went into making sexy characters - With mocap, VA, detailed models etc). With likely the Baldur's Gate name also doing more than the D&D aspect (Due to tugging at the nostalgia of anyone who had played a Baldur's Gate game before)
