I think most people inclined to use the Setting at the table don't care, since table canon will inevitably diverge anyways and many are taking the material to file off the serial numbers anyways. I never had trouble mixing SCAG and the 3E book, my Fri nds and family are not FR lore scholars.
Rights issues do seem to be a barrier, though Seen is an unreliable narrator, to out it mildly.
I see where you are coming from there, for sure. My only other option is a potato desktop that Steam won't even support anymore, st the moment, let alone BG3 (still does spreadsheets and documents...
As a point of comparison, it does seem that Baldur's Gate 3 does run satisfactorily on Steam Deck (I'm not super precious about performance, honestly, especiallyfor a turn based game), and the Switch 2 has considerably better specs than the Steam Deck.
Hobestly, you could mix the original Grey Box with the new stuff and not have much to worry about in terms of contradictions about Calimshan, it is pretty vaguely outlined originally.
That's the Moomshae Isles. Calimshan was in his world, but it was more of a loose idea and a name on the map ("Here there be 1001 Nights"). It was later fleshed out by TSR in fairly pedestrian Orientalist manner, not a highlight of the worldbuilding of the FR (which is pretty much just...
Or get into positions where they can better show off their abilities.
I do not know much about he Scary Movie scripts in question, but for a lot of creative, at some point in their life they need a paycheck and may not have much control over the product.