The enhanced edition of BG1 came out not long ago. And that one sold really well. People did love it, and that paved the way for the BG2 EE edition, and the Icewind Dale one.
A brand new expansion pack set between BG1 and 2 is in the works as we speak.
BG still lives 
I know. I bought both of them. That doesn't mean that the cast of the first one isn't boring boring boring compared with some of the gold in Bioware's more recent games. And honestly, I infinitely prefer the combat in any of the DA games to that. I just don't like whichever edition that was very much.
FWIW, I never got into BG2 the first time around so I'm looking forward to digging into that.