my biggest issue was the bullet sponging and totally unbalanced combat, youd either be a god that couldnt die or someone who has to land 50 headshots with a sniper rifle to kill someone
I don't know about it always being good...Objectively, it launched in a very very rough state, regardless of the platform (my PC is not a cheap rig, still had numerous problems when i played). The recent patch ironed out a lot of the game's problems (tho the level scaling was a step backwards IMO, tho YMMV on that), and yeah, a part of me wants to give props to CDPR for fixing the screwup they themselves made....but I also feel nobody should be giving them props for meeting--and not all the way, mind you--an expectation they themselves set with their own pre release trailers, interviews, and the likes.
Said it before, I'll say it again: they should've just gone the Baldur's Gate 3 route. Because we basically went from Beta, Early Access, to (arguably) the full release of this game in the 3 years it's been out.