Yeah however it turns out, it's a lesson learned for them.
As for Sawyer, it's not really fair to say that. It's not like the people followed the forums and his social networks, they only knew he was lead on IWD2, which continued in the vain of the IE games. I agree with Monte, it was a bad idea to put a man who doesn't like BG in charge of it's spiritual successor. I'm not saying he can't make a good game, but the fact is that he turned a slam dunk for OE in to a huge gamble.