If I had to summarize Dark Urge it would be like this: Durge is as underdeveloped as Karlach's ending used to be.
The rewards for commiting to it suck, most moments don’t matter, it is barely harder than a standard origin, companion reactions to the durge storyline are basically none, etc.
It feels like it was added last and wasn’t properly tested. It sounds good on paper and the origin is way better than TAV, but compared to Shadowheart or Laezel, it's not that special.
In a way it suffers from similar problems as tadpole powers. If Tadpole powers are free of consequences for the most part and basically busted. Dark Urge destroys sidequests, content and magic items for garbage tier rewards. And even good Dark Urge isn't that great, since you get almost no other scenes like the one in ACT 2 or the one in ACT 2.
