Lets run down the list if we want happy ever ending between PC and:
Shadowheart, Gale: We are arm wrestling with deities.
Wyll: We have to be more attractive then a devil.
Laezel: we are lesser (proper word?) race to her ... proof her wrong?
Astarion: He is a 200yr old play boy, so ...
Seems all are up hill battles, and sky is the limit, in terms of difficult ... LOL🤣
ROFL touché!
Also, Lae'zel's whole race is canonically polyamorous and aromantic, so for her at least I'm pretty sure the picket fence is doomed!
In all honesty I don't care if it's not a "HEA" ending. I'd be happy with 'happy for now' or poly or hell, even 'staying in touch cause we're really good friends'. I wasn't specifically referring to romantic endings. DA:O managed this really well, with an essentially open long distance relationship with one companion character, the choice of a really tragic ending with the friend or LI weeping over your grave, the 'in love but can't marry cause racist political BS so the PC ends up the permanent 'consort', and a few others.. I don't think it has to be the syrupy "soul mates joined at the hip forever" to be a satisfying ending.
Hell, my angry and disillusioned half elf cleric who resents religion and hates his patron will likely never have that kind of ending anyway... but he's not going to turn down killing off Astarion's master and joining him in a revenge spree that incorporates as many orgy attendances as he can manage before he dies!
I'd also LOVE to see future repercussions for being hated by companions! Like maybe Lae'zel getting a jones on for your untimely death if you tick her off too much! Ooh or maybe Gale chasing you across the known world for hoarding all the relics and making him find his own items to eat!
