And for those who prefer "more action," there's Diablo and similar games; there's no need to delve into classic RPGs.
Perhaps, this is even a good thing – BioWare hasn't made any truly good classic RPGs except for BG2, and even the fact that Baldur's Gate is good, I haven't personally verified; I'm only relying on the opinions of others. At the same time, the Mass Effect games have proven to be good games, as has DA2. I believe that BioWare has finally found its true calling.
A few thoughts. In my youth, I didn't play BioWare's early RPGs when they were released, so it's quite possible that they were also Mass Effects of their time, which means that BioWare found its calling quite a while ago.
Where do we end up when we save the world?