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 do agree with you on all your points. Especially the first 2, I was starting to feel I was the only one annoyed that you can fight a hag, beholder and drow at level 3-4.
The illithid part aside, the entire evil plan was just so that 1 guy can take over a city?
Isn't that underwhelming? In BG1 it was take over a city to make war with Amn, create a massacre the size of a continent in order to become the lord of murder and he did not even have a god power crown to help.
The small cramp level and the world feeling more like a themed park rather then a large world is how Larian does games, this is just DOS2 but with 5th edition D&D rules. Them changing how the game is made would have been complete trash of a game, it was better to let them do what they were already familiar with.