That was a great read, thank you for posting this. As a kid I always wanted to get into game dev but never managed to (I'm still a dev, but not in the gaming industry since it hasn't thrived where I live). So it was very interesting to see the inner workings of taking decisions in a game dev sense.

Larian also shared an infographic detailing that data collection (e.g. they posted how many players have pet a dog in total), so it makes sense they have a ton of other data collection.