They even still hinted at consequences in their last community update 3 days before launch.
There are consequences if you use
the more advanced tadpoles of which there are two. One will mutilate your face with webs of black veins covering it, and the second will turn you into a mind flayer, destroying the soul of your character and dooming your character to become just another mind flayer under the control of an elder brain in time.
Those are very severe consequences.
