I love DAI. I think it's the best game out this year, and I've figured out it's my 2nd favorite RPG of all time (Fallout: New Vegas being my favorite, DAO being on the list at #5, almost knocked off). But I only tolerated TW2 which seemed a little pretentious to me (I do agree the 2nd act thing is interesting; pity seeing both means playing through the rather tedious first act again; never could replay that game, though I really enjoy the combat, ironically, which many people seem to complain about; I couldn't play the first Witcher because of the overly blatant sex card misogyny), I liked the story in DA2 (not the recycled environments or wave combat), I really enjoyed Skyrim (though I agree the story is sub-par; I can make my own stories in it, at least), and I don't want a CRPG of old for DA. It sounds kind of like you do.
I also hate when games don't have controller support or consider controller design because I play with controller (though if they didn't consider the KB controls enough in DAI, I do feel for those people, and hope they fix it for you, unlike DAO for me on PC).
I would pick up DAI when it's half off or something, sometime next year, with your taste and expectations. I think it's an excellent game, I love how it scales (yes, there's a lot of optional side stuff, but the idea is it's optional and you can mix-and-match in different playthroughs), I think the story is a straightforward man-in-a-hole story made better by excellent companions (the best yet, in my book) and dialogue (the most yet).
Now, it does remind me of Baldur's Gate, in spirit, but the combat system is obviously very different, so it depends upon what you like about BG and how you see it. (I do love BG - or really did at the time; would probably never replay it now, really, except maybe on my iPad, if the application actually worked well, I did buy it, since I don't really care for KB controls anymore; I didn't care when it initially came out because good controllers had only recently become a thing and controller support on PC was a mere dream then, at least as far as I knew and I didn't even know to dream that dream yet.)
I list my thoughts on the other games you mention because I figure that can help you. Personally, I think DAI is the kind of game that gets new people interested in the genre and started on RPGs as well as the kind of RPG that loves ALL of the genre (like me) can really appreciate, but that doesn't mean I think it's for everyone.
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