People have been having issues with expressions since early access. There's a popular mod to fix the worst contenders, reducing wrinkling to varying degrees. If you want to play a stoic character as of now, it's impossible without mods for many popular races/species. People have shut up because we have mods now. It's me. I am people. I am part of the crew to have b*tched about this for ages.
I haven't seen a single post in here asking for Tav to look terrified of Astarion when kissing him until patch 6 happened.
That would be because looking visibly and unexpectedly terrified is the opposite of being stoic. Nonetheless, people have had criticism for how much or little emotion the game conveys for a long time. This scene is the latest incident, and seemingly the most controversial. What the mod does is bump people up to 3 varying sets of intensity (normal, reduced, severely reduced). Be aware, this will be applied to all scenes Tav is in. It was NOT created for Astarion romance.
