That's not right at all. While I'm sure there are plenty of studios who could handle Baldur's Gate 3, Larian is absolutely one of them. By giving them feedback on how unfun their 5E changes are, we stand to convince them to change them. Advantage is a powerful mechanic in 5E and they surely will see that their house rules are handing it out too easily, among other things.
Won't happen. They are married to their surface combat gimmick combat system, both by the engine they use and the design they prefer and now it is too late to change it as they would need to throw out and reinvest a lot of work. Same for their story which depends on special snowflake origin characters instead of regular NPCs.
It actually wouldn't require that much work to make the surfaces significantly better. Obviously Larian is not going to remove them completely, but they could: -have cantrips either create a surface (targeting the ground) or deal damage (targeting a character) -simply increase the weight of barrels/have less of them in the world -give enemies less access to grenades -have arrows not create surfaces
If they made all those changes, the effects of surfaces in game would be so much bearable. More interesting even, as you'd get to make tactical decisions on whether to deal fire damage to an enemy or create a fire surface below them.
