I'm worried this game is going to become like metro exodus, one long cutscene movie.
You've just described The Witcher 3 to me. I don't think that despite the more cinematic presentation, it will be anything like that though, as is obvious from the ridiculously many possible branches in dialogue choices they are targetting -- as well as the far more open quest design and general world interactivity.
As for romances, BG2 was the beginning of the end, really.
