I romanced Astarion and did his spawn ending and I thought his ending scene was fine. The only thing I would change is adding a line from one of the recruitable non-origin characters about checking on him. I honestly just assumed it was one of those "you have to go through it alone" moments for him.
Lae'zel, Karlach, Wyll, and Gale still have some pretty huge character-defining moments left and I liked how the game emphasized them in those moments.
It is great for you that you thought it's fine. It's a RPG though and I should be able to choose how my character reacts when the love of her life is about to turn to cinders. She'd make sure, he gets to safety and healed. Instead my character is forced to ignore him. That is in no way, shape or form how any of my characters would ever react. Astarions pain and fear are just brushed aside.
That's why I ask for the option to choose: either follow him or ignore him (for the people who are fine with the scene or don't care about Astarion).
Besides, the other companions get their huge moments handled with dignity. Imho Astarion loosing immunity to sunlight is a huge character-defining moment as well (let's not forget, Larian has him say that perhaps the changes were permanent. They had him get his hopes up). Why is his huge character-defining moment turned into a tasteless joke?
