Anyone else disappointed they didn’t make Pillars of Eternity 3?

I’m a huge fan of POE and it single handedly brought me back to the CRPG genre.

I purchased Avowed and now that I’m seeing it - it’s not what I want at all. The entire gameplay change and the style of the game itself is not what I was looking for. I feel like we’re not going to get a real successor for POE with Avowed being this popular. I couldn’t care less about the politics of the game itself - I’m just confused as to why they used the POE world for a different style of game. Sure the graphics look great, it probably has a fantastic soundtrack, and it’s loaded with fun combat mechanics but I would pick the classic “old school crpg” look over the 3rd person Assassin’s Creed looking graphics any day.

After finishing BG3 on release - I went and struggled through a playthrough of Arcanum (didn’t finish), I incorrectly stumbled through Planescape without understanding what I was doing, and a ridiculously fun Fallout 2 playthrough. I played a season of Diablo 2 Resurrected and Path of Exile and know for a fact I want to play turn based CRPGS or at least the pause combat function instead of farming hordes of monsters for incremental item upgrades. I jumped back into Deadfire for a second playthrough only to want to restart POE1 for a third time.

Did they really think that POE2 did so poorly that they couldn’t have another top down crpg? Are CRPGs not a big enough pull so they had to switch the entire style of the game?

Edit: I didn’t follow the Avowed development and didn’t know a few key facts about the game before posting here. I plan to finish Avowed over the next three or so weeks and see if it captures the world / lore of Eora.