I don't play many PC games these days because of how woke a lot of the shit is. I got burned on Cyberpunk, so now I pretty much play FS2020 and that's it these days. The last game I played through was System Shock remake, which I found to be decent enough.
BG3 won game of the year from Worth a Buy, but I hear it has a lot of gay sex?
I agree with everything you wrote but I don't think it was critical enough even tbh. I found balancing a big issue myself and the combat felt more tedious than anything. I felt confused at times at what I was even supposed to do to progress the story and then felt the options I wanted to take weren't feasible due to the difficulty and it wasn't easy figuring out how to improve my strength without ruining the ability to take the options I wanted.
The whole time I was playing BG3, I just felt like I'd rather be playing BG2 instead.