Always love me some Yahtzee. His takes are pretty much always great.
I'll have to agree and disagree both.
I agree wholeheartedly with the point he makes at the end by saying that there should be significantly more 'friend' scenes. Gale's stargazing scene unromanced (before patch 3) was sweet. Same with talking to Lae'zel about abandoning Vlaakith in act 3. The game needs more of those.
On the other hand, his examples are either misunderstood or correct but outdated. Yes, Lae'zel will want some very quick. But it's made clear that it's just sex for the sake of sex. It's the start of the romance. You're nowhere yet at that point, it might just be a Githyanki thing. The concept of a 'one night stand' exists IRL for a reason. As for the Gale scene, they added exactly what he asked for. Wyll needs something like that too, though.
Regarding dialogue options existing to start romance - I don't think that's a problem whatsoever. There's a reason comedies like "What Women Want" exist - it's because we all think about things we will never act upon sometimes. Makes me wonder what his take on Dark Urge would be, because as we know, that gives you some rather interesting choices sometimes.
And in-game as it stands right now, if you do act upon them, the game will (as far as I know) only allow you to start romance with a few companions before the rest won't give you the option anymore. In most cases the limit seems two, Astarion seems to be able to make that three. I do think you can cheat into more but that's unintended (except Wyll, who seems to almost always show up in act 2 with his dance, but only after you turned down another and he became the 'second' option).
