>>104720751>>104720786An actual answer to this is because Witcher 1's gameplay is horrendous and if you try to play the games in order you're going to get filtered before you get to the actual good Witcher games. Perhaps someday when they finish the remake it will actually be playable.
2 is of course well worth playing but the other problem with the Witcher games is that they are all long as fuck so even if you do have the patience to play them all, you'll burn out and then you'll never get around to the others. If you only have time for one game, best to just skip straight to 3 so you're playing the best one.