While I'm still not particularly thrilled with the endings to her story, it is at least nice that Larian seems to recognize the community's displeasure and took such prompt steps to at least put a band-aid on it.
I just want to share my thoughts on this since I've been obsessing over it since I learned that Karlach's endings were what they were. Gallons of digital ink have been spent listing the many reasons why Karlach's current endings are unsatisfying and needlessly tragic, so I'm not going to rehash them here, but I would like Larian to know that I would still like an option for Karlach's engine to be fixed. I'm not necessarily asking for Karlach and Tav to retire to Baldur's Gate and live happily ever after (although I certainly won't complain if that's what happens). But the fact that the choices we're presented with are so contrived and seemingly ambivalent to the efforts that we go through in order to avoid them is not just tragic, it's borderline insulting. Wyll has the opportunity to escape his pact AND let his father live. Gale can avoid blowing himself to kingdom come AND can set things right with Mystra. Lae'zel can recognize that Vlaakith is evil AND stay with the player in Faerun. These are the result of hard work and commitment from the player to get the optimal ending that they want, as that's the beauty of choice driven narratives.
I'm also not saying that they need to remove the current endings because they're too tragic. By all means leave them in, some people like tragedy and that's okay. People should be allowed to go for the ending that they want. But the fact that we are left with basically taking arsenic with bread and butter or taking it straight is not satisfying.
