I think the problem is yours more than WRPGs, WK. BG and various other games are pretty widely regarded as being deeply immersive and competent. If you go in expecting something as freeform and convincing and PnP then yeah, you're going to be disappointed, but you're asking for games to do something which they could not then and still can't now do. Might as well criticize Metropolis for not being 3D.