I’ll add to that list the fact that Minthara is an irrelevant character in Act 3 entirely. Even beyond the incredible number of bugs she faces, some of which are admittedly being addressed in the upcoming patch, she is so lacking in content to the point where it feels like she wasn’t even written by Larian with how little care went into her character. She is essentially the only reward you get for choosing evil in a game where playing evil actively decreases the amount of content you have access to, so I feel like it’s not crazy to expect her to be damn well worth being evil. Yet she only has one single greeting for the entire game (romanced or not), and her romance fully feels like it was added in a day before the game’s release. She does not have a single romance scene that is actually part of her romance story, and it’s exclusively made up of two short dialogue sequences that are solely triggered based off of reaching an approval benchmark and have nothing to do with the actual story progression. Not sure why Larian is even bothering to add the evil endings cinematics when it’s pretty obvious they themselves acknowledge that whole part of the game being basically non existent (hence why they now let you have minthara in a good playthrough). As your reward for being evil (giving up on Wyll and Karlach) she should have as much content as they do, or at the very least have content equal to her non-origin counterparts like Jaheira and Halsin. Yet she only has about as much content as Minsc, who is only in the game for the sake of an extra nostalgic companion and isn’t intended to really have all that much impact on the story. If they didn’t want to commit to Minthara being a worthwhile companion then they should have just cut her from the game along with all the other things they decided they didn’t have time for, instead of leaving her in as a testament to all the places where the game drastically falls short of expectations despite the places where it shines.
