Considering the price you pay compared to even a single full priced game, it’s pretty damn consumer-friendly. It’s especially valuable for full price games that you’re going to play through once and never touch again, not so much for games you’ll want to keep returning to.

Most likely because it makes the game look more potato than the Devs were willing to allow

I mean, BG3 is an incredibly well-crafted and focused RPG, but you cannot in good faith compare it to a game with orders of magnitude more NPCs and voice lines, they’re simply not comparable.