He feels somewhat manipulative in his current writing as you pointed out.

I despise his interactions in brothel/banter with SH and it's kinda obvious "same writer problem". But seems like this topic anyway attracts new ppl as more ppl find out about this.

But what about Halsin when solo romanced? His ending is nice when he is solo LI, but what disgusts me is that AFAIK Halsin is the only romance partner that refuses to go with Avernus with Karlach origin when solo romanced(he even has phrase to "kill herself" if she doesn't want to go there alone).