Yup, there's nothing deranged about hating Larian when you've played Divine Divinity and seen how far they've fallen.
I enjoyed playing Divine Divinity around launch.
BUT, replaying it recently, what I mostly liked was the open world diablo thing but with good quests and interesting cut-scenes, like the orc flying a wyvern and rambling first time you get out of the starting village.
Aside from this, it was pretty bad though, terrible dungeon design and combat overall (you can pick a rogue, spam scorpions and be done with it, which I did on first playthrough), close combat fighter is a chore and mage is worse because mana depletes extremely fast.
From Divine Divinity to DOS.
Replaying it also showed me they use assets over their games, also, they re-use their shitty skills and skills icons.
So, Larian was close to do something real good with their DOS franchise, they only lacked a good system and tune down their shitty humor a bit.
Well, with BG3, they now have a good system, I didn't play BG3 yet but they'll never be this close to make a good cRPG.
It's now or never.