It's personal preference for me, but having played almost every D&D CRPG in the past, from the previous Baldur's Gate entries to Icewind Dale and Neverwinter (and even the old "gold box" AD&D titles such as Pool of Radiance), I've found that I am bored and sick and tired of Illithids whenever they show up. They don't do anything for me and games that have them as a plot point have often been a tiresome slog where I have to get past the part with them in it before I can start having fun again.
For me it's a WOTC/Hasbro property flex they seem to need to keep flexing over and over again because they own it and so I was hoping BG3 had stories and settings and maps that don't feature yet more psionic slavery brainvore fuckery.
That's making me hesitate about my purchase, because I don't know how much of it to expect but the trailers and basic plot pitch on Steam made me worry.
Thank you for the information.
I'm still on the fence about buying the game; I enjoyed the two Pathfinder games (Kingmaker and Wrath of the Righteous) but if BG3 is just "sort of that, but with a lot of added proprietary WOTC Mind Flayers(tm) and maybe some visually assisted " I'm not sure if I should.
Take it for a test drive. Our lady fitgirl is working on a repack.