When I first read this thread I thought "homophobic bait post, not worth engaging" but I find it hilarious that people have decided to hijack it with subtantive discussion.
On fanfiction - I think it's great that they hired fanfic authors. There are real Forgotten Realms fans at work in chapter 2 and it shows. In fact fanfic is the way DnD works - Ed Greenwood was just someone who kept sending in articles to Dragon magazine and then got he hired by TSR . . .
On the recent interview: I found it interesting that the writers acknowledge that Wyll was a disadvantage because he was in the grove. This is partially true but Larian has failed to acknowledge that this itself is a failure of their decision to cap the party at 4.
Warlock is just not a great class but works best as a MC class. You get to pass all those persuasion checks, you can have a human that sees in the dark, a gish that is as good with sword as it is with spell.
But most people want Tav to be the voice of the party and as a party member a warlock is just have someone who casts elritch blast repeatedly and that's a) really boring and b) easily replaced. But, having said that, Wyll is always in my party but I make him into a thief since I need someone to disarm traps and open doors - I don't need someone to cast eldritch blast (again)