Well it's more like "Karlach's death or forcing Karlach back into her place of trauma which she adamantly didn't want to go back to", to most of us it just feels approximately equally bad (as in, unsatisfactory and/or unhappy, not as in badly executed, no) to the point some people even stop playing since they don't get a better option in the end. (I am not above being selfish and I did convince her to return, but would sure love to do something more substantial instead.)
Choosing between her or Wyll in some way would've been a strong option, especially considering how willing they both would to die for one another (what with Karlach not believing she'll live anyway and with Wyll chronically putting himself before others). Not sure it could or would be logically implemented at the point their stories are currently developed to, but the idea is interesting. (Considering that Wyll was done even dirtier in terms of content amount and Karlach seems to be more popular among fans, though, that's just setting the poor guy up).
Now, a pact I believe has been brought up as an option multiple times in this thread, with Mizora or with Raphael. Granted, the House of Hope quest proved it's kinda easy-ish to just steal your contract and kill the devil you made it with (unless they made sure to contractually sign your soul off to Hell in case of their death), but at the very least that would be a whole thing and would definitely count as "trying"
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