I read Spellfire, one of Ed's novels for TSR. This is on par for him.Even a Belgian-developed RPG campaign setting can't be as bad as Ed Greenwood's Forgotten Realms:On the one hand, I admire Swen for what he said there and for sticking to his guns re. not exploiting the BG3 success in a predictable way. On the other hand, I prefer the FR as a setting to their own Divinity IP
I think ultimately, the 5e ruleset cramped Larian's style too much. It's kind of ironic, and a bit sad, that Larian won the big prize of doing a BG game, but the mechanics they were stuck with are unsuited to big, spectacular combat of the kind they prefer.
Ed Greenwood was a R*dditor before the internet even existed