I assume you are referring to the fact that patch 6 introduced some changes to AA. One is that Tav looks very uncomfortable after a kiss (which, I agree, kinda weird, players should be able to decide if Tav is cool with it or not), and the other is that AA is more evil and demeaning of a love interest, which makes sense, since he's evil. Literally evil. Unquestionably, unequivocally evil. Now, if you want the edges sanded off of AA, because an evil vampire lord being evil to you ruins the fun for you, fair enough, but Larian is not some kind of malicious, disgusting monster (nor is the writer in charge of Astarion) for deciding to write him this way.
Let your voices be heard, but be measured and respectful in your requests to Larian. No. I absolutely do not, in any way, respect wanting a writer to be fired because a fictional character makes them uncomfortable, after they chose to push that character to mass murder 7,007 innocent souls (and condemn them to the hells) in a canonically evil ritual, and the end result of that choice is that the character became evil.
Three things -
1) 100% agree that feedback needs to be respectful, however, shoddy writing is just shoddy and people are right to point out the inconsistencies. If that means a better writer is put in charge of the character, I’m all for it.
2) the majority of those 7007 people weren’t innocent by any stretch. And would have become mindless and murderous after their release. The merciful thing to do is kill them and, as that’s the only reasonable option, why let them go to waste? Use them in the ritual.
3) Astarion has always been ‘evil’. A lot of people don’t get this because Larian essentially make a point of defanging him (spawn) and removing key parts of his history (kidnapper and trafficker).
