Instead, both the first title and Pillars of Eternity 2: Deadfire utilized real-time with pause, which still worked perfectly well, but left those players who preferred the turn-based approach ...

For myself, I say real-time with pause was good enough for Baldur's Gate 1 and 2 ... Pillars of Eternity did get a separate beefy update today that makes a number of fixes and tweaks to gameplay.