I just had the Weave scene and I didn't care about resting often or taking notes of Gales approval, since I'm not planning on romancing him. So it seems, they fixed that.
Yes, same here, and I'm sure I did things that in previous playthroughs had sent the approval high too quickly. I still didn't get his dialogue requesting the Necromancy of Thay or the option to give it to him when I'd got the key, though, despite the fact he was in the party and disapproved when I read it myself, so even if some of the approval-related triggers have been fixed it looks like there's still some work to do.
