From the moment Duke is mentioned Wyll constantly talks only about him, quotes him all the time, and cries about him. It is far beyond respect, it is needy and clingy. Good for a little boy, good for a teenager but not for a ground-up independent man, for a hero. It makes Wyll immature. It takes away from his heroic life. It makes him look weak.
I couldn't disagree more. To me, Wyll is one of the strongest and most upstanding characters in the game, and incredibly worth of respect. He has taken on the lessons he received from his father and made them his own. Wyll spent seven years helping ordinary people around the Sword Coast because it was the right thing to do, not to win his father's affection or respect. He didn't obsess about trying to make his father understand why he took on a warlock pact: he made one effort to explain, and then set it aside when it become clear that Mizora was blocking him from showing the full truth. He then went on to find his own path as a folk hero. Maybe this wasn't "grand," but I think that's part of the point. Wyll doesn't need to be grand, he's okay helping out in humble ways.
It is natural that Wyll became more focused around his father when his father was in danger. Moving on from his previous life doesn't mean that he can't still want his father to be safe and well. Wyll has plenty of things to say about lots of subjects that aren't his father.
There is no point continually changing Wyll in a misguided effort to make him "more popular." He was already rewritten once. Different people will like different characters more or less. Let the people who currently like Wyll continue liking him. Those who like other characters more than him can keep liking those characters. (This is quite aside from the dubiousness of doing a full re-write of a character post-release. This isn't early access anymore. This is a time when adding more options is fine, but doing anything more than tweaks for the content we've already got is questionable.)
