It's also bright and colourful and slightly cartoonish in a way that, say, Pillars of Eternity wasn't. I wonder if this makes it feel slightly more mainstream, slightly more 'fun', and a bit less like a stodgy old CRPG from yesterday (and to be clear, I loved PoE the way I loved BG and BG2).
It's also got enough wild shit in it to grab a few headlines that way.
Of course they are. They'd be mad not to.
I am interested to see what they do, as they've said before the BG3 engine sorta breaks down after level 12 so they might not go any higher. Presumably that means it's another 'start at level 1' type campaign.
A return to Icewind Dale or Spelljammer perhaps??