Here's the article: https://www.thegamer.com/playing-a-bard-in-baldurs-gate-3-put-me-off-it-for-good/
In the article, she says she enjoyed playing a Barbarian and tanking every hit the game had to offer. Which, if that's your play style, yeah, a bard is going to fail. And the things a bard is great at, social interaction, is a thing that can't really happen in a video game, even one as expansive as BG3.
But.
Bards are still the coolest.