I disagree on that point.
Anyway, I have written way too much (and still have a video to watch). I hope that didn't derail the original discussion too much. In short, my point was that the writing of evil need not be simplistic and ridiculous "because it's FR". To reconnect with (half of) the OP's topics, it would certainly be appreciated if some aspects of the writing could be improved from poor to anything better than poor. There may be too many constraints already (choices that led to animation and voice acting being produced that Larian will not want to throw away), and these currently-poor aspects might not reach excellent, but good-enough or good would be great.
Just wanted to say I only avoiding responding to this excellent post because, like you, I fear I was hijacking the OP's thread. So we'll continue in another thread and I'll briefly say -- I think whether you consider FR a default good setting depends on whether you are focusing the rules or the canonical novels and such.
Anyway, this video made me want to take a class in documentary film making.
