BG3 has possibly (hopefully not) cemented the "player sexual" romance shit. That is yuuuuge cringe and embarrassing for anyone who has defended that. It has the worst romance system in any game I've ever played. You literally can't have a true friend in the game because everything is soured by sex shit.
If there is a sexual element between two people it isn't a real friendship because the sexual element will always take precedence over the friendship. It compromises the whole thing. So in BG3 you can't have a real friend because we need to appease the small number of degenerate and dysgentic faggots on reddit who cry when male party member x doesn't want to sodomize them.
Apparently Bioware did it first in one of their Dragon Age games, no idea which as i haven't played any of them.
They really shot themselves in the foot with this shit. If they had made all the companions normal with good quests and personal backstories but picked one specifically to make gay (say, Astarion), and write that into the game and his story and quests nobody would have had a problem with that.
But then that wouldn't have appeared the reddit trubo fags.