After watching Viconia's romance on YouTube, I disagree with you dext. Paladin.

There is a difference between making character evil and stupid evil and it's not the first time being evil is just straight out worse than good / neutral in BG3. It�s like the writers cant write a competent evil, where real life is choke full of that.

You gain nothing by being evil, in fact, you lose stuff and get locked out of quests and rewards with basically nothing to make up for that. You want smart evil? Here are examples from Fallout New Vegas:

-Turning on solar space laser for your own power or distributing the energy to a whole region.
-Making a grieving woman pay to get her husband's out of a warzone.
-Extorting a community for cash with blackmail
-Killing 100 NCR troops and getting their dog tags to the Legion, who give the best rewards in the whole damn game.

In Baldur's Gate 3 evil is stupid, evil characters tend to be brainwashed, stupid or Lunatic and this is coming from someone who never played BG 1 or 2.
I hold no attachement to either Viconia or Sarevok, but what they did to those characters is a slap in the face of previous Baldur's Gate games fans and just Terrible writing in general.

Ps: SerTomato, I posted a link to your thread on Larian Discord, giving you full credit. Just a heads up.