You're not necessarily wrong but maybe you kind of are. I'll explain, I played the other baldur gate games in the 90s (I still have the old school big box BG2 collectors edition), im not young or new to this style game. It's not my favorite genre but I DO enjoy it. I played DOS2 in 2019 and loved it, baldurs gate was just over hyped after hearing everyones praise and llaying those other games i expected more. Its obviously keaps ahead of BG2 but thats an OLD game at this point... and man too many people love cod even tho it's what I'd consider objectively not good, unlike BG3 which is an objectively good game (but over rated).

Another game I've played a bit of but can't understand why it's so successful is helldivers 2. I Def need to try it some more and see if it clicks, but it's kind of.... empty and repetitive, like cod.