Is it still to early to pass on this?

I'll take a clone with decent gameplay over a microtrash laden official licensed product any day.

Entirely depends what flavour they land on

If we get something like Dave the diver… wouldn’t be the worst thing.

I will concede that hoping for the best possible outcome is a bit… delusional… during these times we live in.

The story ended with LotV and ended well. I already hate third games that changed developers and there are many examples for this (Baldur's Gate 3 is quite a rare exception here). Also it will probably be worse than Stormgate so, no thanks.

For anyone unfamiliar with Nexon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexon

Nexon Co., Ltd. (formerly Korean: 넥슨) is a South Korean–Japanese video game developer and publisher specializing in live service games. It develops and publishes titles including MapleStory, Crazyracing Kartrider, Sudden Attack, Dungeon & Fighter, The First Descendant, and Blue Archive. Headquartered in Japan, the company has offices in South Korea, the United States, Taiwan, and Thailand.[7]

I don't know who nexon is but I can only assume that this is great news

Oh, boy. You're beyond just wrong.