As for me, I expect Larian to follow its standardized route now, no proper innovations or risks on their part are to be expected.
I'm not so sure.
Literally their tagline for the game is:
"Larian Studios unchains its ambitions to bring you an RPG with greater breadth & depth than ever before."The whole thing is mentioned how this will be "The game they always wanted to make" and how much more grand its scope is.
It very much sounds like they'll be pushing the envelope a bit with the title.
Probably not so much in terms of innovation (As they've not really shown any desire in prior titles to really innovate besides their signature Surface mechanics). But I'd imagine they'd do some risks, much like how they made risks with BG3 with full nudity, sex scenes and of course the whole marketing stunt of showing off the bear sex as advertisment.
That they got away with it, probably inspires them to push even more "Taboo" - Such as dark themes and violence which are often neutered in video games because "Won't somebody think of the children?", things they've hinted at in past titles (Such as DOS2's Fort Joy and especially Kniles)
As well as doubling down on non-standard races. People ended up enjoying Lae'zel and her alienness as well as Karlach (Also, Mizora is fairly popular too). So they can be more confident that atypical races would be given a chance.
