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.
You're right there's so much more I can go into and I could write a dissertation on the problems with the game. The comment was meant to sort of reassure you but I accidentally sperged and turned it into a mega review post. It's not just you, I've been playing BG2 to lately for inspiration with an RPG concept I'm working on and it's simply superior in every way even with the problems the game has and every time I think about BG3 I immediately drift towards BG2 instead.
The joke is regarding combat sometimes BG2 is more broken and cheesy than BG3 yet it can be forgiven because at least the combat is entertaining and so is the story, there's nothing really all that remarkable about BG3 at the end of the day.
I actually preferred Tyranny if we're going to talk modern RPGs.