Bland story, bland gameplay, bland characters, and a lot of changes from its predecessors makes it a horrible game, regardless of the graphics. I don't care about today's current politics, I play video games in FANTASY worlds. They shouldn't give a crap about that. If that's how it is in that world, then it shouldn't matter. No need to draw attention to it because it's common place there, and would be weird to point it out. Like how in BG3, it's just normal. No attention drawn to it or taken away from it, it just exists.