Tangent: failed states in Pathfinder are more do to the poor way it delivers information. Your kingdom can fail because of who you sent to do a small task a chapter before with no indication of how important the task. Plot threat that never manifests > getting failed states from making decisions in a vacuum.
But they already established that you can't beat Eothas in the opening cut scene. Dude just walks by you and you nearly die. Sure, writers could've done some deus ex mechina to 'make you as powerful as a god', but that seems counter intuitive to what we already know about the gods and excludes the Watcher from being a possible protagonist in the next installment. Otherwise, the only way around this is to have a completely different primary conflict.
We've already had enough 'gods (or their servants) are the bad guys'. We need POE 3's villain to be staunchly anti-religious because that's something that we haven't seen in this setting. Might be fun if the villain actually was the Watcher and we have to play a new character.
Tons of tweets, posts, threads, and emails and no response = Atari nondisclosure. And, no, nobodies talked about the nondisclosure itself because its a nondisclosure.
My highly biased list of games I liked the most among the recent crpg revival:
1) Pillars of Eternity
2) Battle Brothers
3) The Bard's Tale Trilogy (a remake of the first three Bard's Tale games)
4) Divinity Original Sin 2
5) Shadowrun Dragonfall
6) Pillars of Eternity 2
7) Shadowrun Hong Kong
Pathfinder Kingmaker
9) Tyranny
10) Underrail
11) Divinity Original Sin
12) Wasteland 2
13) Shadowrun Returns
15) Druidstone (haven't finished; been way too busy with work)
16) Serpent in the Staglands
17) The Age of Decadence
18) Low Magic Age (still in development but shows a lot of potential)
19) Torment Tides of Numenera (the only game on this list I didn't care for)
Several months ago I incorrectly said that Underrail's upcoming Expedition expansion was going to be free. Its not. It will, however be out July 22. https://www.gog.com/game/underrail_expedition