Okay, so I agree on the first bit that goes into the "we are special" thing. See Sir PTerry's bit on Pans Narrans over the egotistical Homo Sapiens.
I would note that every cultures default state was racism and exclusion, much like the notoriously violent Chimps and the less physically violent but no less ruthless rigid social hierachies of bonobos. Europeans do not have an exclusive lock on that.
Note that eastern cultures are still extremely racist and sexist, and were for a very long time before any meaningful direct contact with Europe. Also the original concept that Sapiens exclusively killed off Neanderthalensis (as well as Denisova) is wildly incorrect.
At least for Homo Erectus, we are absolutely smarter but physically weaker than them. Yeah they apparent could build wooden structures, but for tooling they never moved beyond stone hand axes for over a million years. as others have put it: "they early on perfected the hand held stone tool and never moved beyond it."
It was really a combination of Homo Habilis and Homo Erectus that wiped out most of the other "human" species, not Homo Sapiens.
Larian pulled out of their contract after Hasbro fired everyone Larian worked with to make BG3.
It isn't a case of Hasbro going "hey we can trade up" This is Hasbro on damage control going "how the fuck do we follow that up"