Also, I'd like to point out that if you have that cute character that the story really, really wants you to like, that character will most likely meet a horrible end. It's a trope. If a character death is supposed to have impact, you have to care for the character first. Beth March from Little Women comes to mind as another character of this flavour. It's not a new thing. Though I am surprised that they didn't imagine the outrage beforehand. ^^
I expected the game to not use such a low effort trope with how much care went into the other main characters(slightly exclusing wyll cos he has less screentime/dialogue and agency as the other characters do which sucks, but at least he doesnt have an ending to his character arc thats just depressing for the sake of it).
Just imagine a reality where the devs put as much time and effort into karlachs questline as they did for astarion or shadowheart. Hell, just a fraction as much even, sure wouldve been nice lol
