I honestly really like the current difficult choice you have to make in order to impress her. Just from my own character's weird RP perspective I like the idea of making bad decisions for someone you love
I would normally be 100% on board with this, if that difficult decision came AFTER you get to know her. But as the very first stepping stone required? It's entirely too much lost as a result, especially with how her romance continues to be a major problem even after Larian believed they fixed it. That you can't romance her without slaughtering the grove I think is compromise enough to allow her to be saved without dooming the Tieflings to be Thanos-snapped out of existence. The neutral path not helping the grove or the goblins when you get a certain sidequest outcome even tells you explicitly you'll see the tieflings later, but that was clearly left on the cutting room floor for reasons I can't understand. I've mentioned in Minthara's thread that the strict losses you have to incur to recruit her at all are absolutely ridiculous compared to what Halsin is perfectly okay with you doing to the place he'd been dedicating his life to. It's totally contrived nonsense.
