The spawn ending is toothachingly sweet, especially in the new epilogue. Even spawn Astarion needs to keep his "bite" IMO and he comes off as a bit too nice at times.
They've turned it into rainbows and unicorns, without mentioning any of the inconveniences Astarion has to deal with after losing the tadpole - in the romanced version that is. At least the Underdark and Ascended endings have more realism. I agree, he becomes too nice and loses his snarkiness.
