Honestly, it was the same with me, but I feel like single player is so busted too. Unless you can get a "DnD group" together to truly play focus and get it done, you're stuck with single player. And trying to manage 4-6 characters, and their equipment, and their inventory, in D:OS2 as a single player added dozens of hours to the game in my experience.

BG3 significantly boosted the quality of life with a lot of things. The least of which was getting rid of the "physical armor vs magical armor" aspect.