Without any evidence to suggest otherwise, it's just baseless conspiracy theory to think some "shadow figure" was secretly pulling the strings to make their preferred evil-capitalist-ideal version of BG3 (lol).
BG3 is indie because they financed the game with money they raised themselves and self-published. It's that simple.
BG3 is indie because they financed the game with money they raised themselves and self-published. It's that simple.