The issue you are complaining about is a real one but this game BG3 spesificalky did release in a finished and polished state.
Let’s not kid ourselves, Baldurs Gate 3 was far from polished and with all this content they are adding, definitely not finished either.
I get people love the game, so do I, but I am not going to ignore it’s problems. Bringing attention to issues only helps improve matters instead of pretenting they don’t exist because it’s your favourite game.
A game with that much scale and that much variance has bugs. They’re part and parcel of developing at that scale with a world that responds to user actions.
It’s a 100-200 hour game with heavily branching story telling and world states, plus massively varied combat options. Testing enough to be “bug free” isn’t possible. Cleaning up most of the heavy hitters and relying on user reports to catch edge cases is the only way to do it. If you release a “bug free” large scale open world game, there’s no way it’s ambitious enough.
Me and my friends had an horrendous experience, with bugs and issues you couldn’t possibly miss. There was a whole bunch of QoL needed and the fact the immediate follow up patches were fucking huge just shows. Sure it’s a big game, but it was dysfunctional in places and QA is more important in a game where you can invest 100 hours just for a quest to be softlocked in the final act and effectively kill the whole playthrough.
It could have sat in the oven for another year and released in a much more respectable state with more of their intended content. I would recommend anyone the game now (or maybe I’d tell them to wait a bit more while they add more story). It was absolutely released too early. If they didn’t want to pay for testing, they could have dropped more of the game in early access first before officially releasing it.