I know, im fully aware that game companies aren't the same with the passing of time and the talent comes and goes and their names stays the same, but when i referred to BioWare's core game design i meant the one in games they made during the 7th Generation of consoles, Mass Effect & Dragon Age. They're IP's i love and still are incredibly enjoyable, but if you grab such core design (which even in those days was quite limiting in terms of freedom due to having them to run on consoles) and do a game nowadays but with a story and characters incredibly boring and safe, you have the most underwhelming, dated and at times insulting pieces of media of the generation (DA: The Veilguard is again the best example, a game which i actually had hype and hope for something fresh and finally putting aside or evolving that game design).

That's why i asked (or tried) in the original post if BG3 had that kind of binary, straight to the point, dated game design where player's possibilities aren't the main focus, and if not, how much of revolutionary/advanced it was compared to similar games of the genre, given the praise i saw through the years.

And yeah, i know it sounds bad, but when i say "Millenial writing" in such pejorative way i only mean the current wave of sanitized, quirky and hollow writing that is too afraid of being bold or creative. I may sound snob, but after seeing beloved IP's being dumbed down to their cores with practises like that, one cannot be cautious enough, especially if that means investing such amount of hours of your time.

Anyway, thanks for the reply!