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It wasn't considered the apex, it was considered the start of a potential renaissance. Bioware hadn't gone to shit back then, and a non third person RPG with actual choices seemed like it might bring the genre back.
Then the series got utterly butchered and Inquisition, despite selling relatively well, put it in the clear tumblr fantasy camp rather than anything serious.
It wasn't until pathfinder and original sin before RPGs started to try clawing their way back to relevance