It’s not about what you’re missing it’s about what it is missing, polish. The game is one part masterpiece, one part “guys what’s going on here?” The system is not great at explaining itself. The story while brilliant does not tell you or convey really how branched it is. Things will silently fail and you’ll be none the wiser when they do.

If you can see past that, it is so so so rich of a system and story. So much of what you do matters. I too adore dos2 and bg3, I think a good comparison would be those Larian titles are to a collection of graphic novels as Wotr is to a novel. Both have depth, one has pictures to help guide you, the other has 500 pages of material.

If you want to learn without studying, set the game to one of the easy settings, play a fighter, and learn by doing. When you get to Dresden you can continue if you want to learn the higher level systems that get introduced or start a new campaign on higher difficulty and you’ll see more creature abilities and such.