Yeah, I personally have always really, really disliked his act 1 romance scene. I think it's just a me thing, I'm going to spoiler it since it's quite negative:
even back in Early Access when I didn't know other fans I just had to mash the spacebar every time to skip through it because it just made me cringe a lot, I couldn't listen to it whatsoever. My personal opinion is that it fails at being sexy and is instead a quite bad impression of what a seductive person talks like, not to mention very obviously fake both in the lines themselves and, honestly, the acting, I think. I'm not sure if even back then he had the instructions that this was all completely an act since we know that it was another writer who brought that angle after EA, but it kinda feels like they had some idea (because of devnotes like "winning at seduction") because it truly is too on the nose. At least the part where he doesn't talk is actually pretty good, but whenever he's talking it's terrible for me, but I had to do it because I really liked Astarion and wanted the scenes that came afterwards, like the scar reading which I love.
For actual sexy scenes, I'd say both good and evil Shadowheart's act 3 scenes are pretty sexy, and parts of AA's scene except when he's savouring that you kneeled because he lays it on really thick and does some really weird poses.
Back to the topic, I'm pretty sure I've brought this up in the other romance improvements thread, but I'm actually quite partial to the approach where Tav is there to serve as a narrative tool rather than being, let's say, more roleplay focused, because I don't care so much about roleplaying a character in contrast to experiencing an interesting narrative and the world the devs have made for me (I will say I was a bit confused I could only be mean to Naaber, lol.). But this is very much a personal preference, there's definitely no harm in adding an extra option that is after all still going to lead to the same dialogue branches that are already ingame.
