I know that a lot of people have anxiety about them keeping Karlach's ending the way it is (I certainly do), but I really do feel like they're going to fix it. Let's for a moment take a look at what we know so far:

-Karlach was the last origin character to be added, and so naturally has the least developed story.

-Act 3 in general is kind of a mess even if you ignore Karlach's ending.

-Larian both has a history of incorporating player feedback, AND has gone back and improved character endings before based on player feedback in their previous game (Beast's questline and Fane's ending).

-Larian's incorporation of player feedback is the cornerstone of its business model, so suddenly ignoring it would be a strange move.

-Despite it being listed on the frequently requested feedback list, a new discord thread asking for a better Karlach ending pops up about once a day, and is usually one of the top upvoted posts of that day. In addition, this thread is the biggest on the site, and it's not even really close.

-Larian has straight up come out and said they aren't done with the game yet, and are currently working on epilogues for the other characters.

-We already know they called all of the VA's back in, according to both the VA's themselves and the company.

-There are numerous breadcrumbs in Act 3 that pretty clearly point to a possible good ending for Karlach, that for whatever reason didn't make it into the final game (enriched infernal iron, the Gondians existence and dialogue, Gortash being a major antagonist, the House of Hope, etc.).

-Larian has a history of being tight lipped about what they're working on, so it's not really surprising they haven't said anything about it.

-The only real evidence that we have of Larian "doubling down" is a vague PR statement that is open to interpretation, and a few lines of new dialogue.

-It's literally only been 42 days since launch, it hasn't even launched on Xbox or Macs yet, we're still pretty early in the development cycle.

Maybe I'm just huffing copium of am overly optimistic or whatever, but I feel like all of these things taken together add up to a happy ending for us. I'm certainly extremely anxious about it just like all of you (since I check this infernal website several times an hour), but I really do think it's all going to be okay.