This is what I'm not understanding. People did not have an issue with expressions for five literal patches. Never posted on how they wished they would change.
Now, suddenly, when the game realigns to what it had beforehand, they are unhappy with losing something that hurt a lot of people, and are asking for changes to something that haven't even been seen yet. How do they know they will be unhappy? They haven's seen the end product. So it does feel a tad disingenuous. It gives the impression of a few people trying to be counter. Their RP abilities were not squashed previous to patch 6. Otherwise they would have been on here complaining before the new 6 animations dropped. I don't understand being upset over something we've already had before, that at the time had not made them upset.
If you checked my reply, it's to the claim that people have not talked about how characters emote for the last 5 patches. That is simply untrue.
I don't see Natasy talking about any other animations than the kissing ones.
Natasy does explicitly not specify as they start with a general statement, which is then followed up by "losing something". The first indirect mention of kissing is: "Their RP abilities were not squashed previous to patch 6".
Of course, Natasy may have just worded their statement in an unprecise way. In that case, I doubt I'd have wronged them by mentioning the long standing issue of people complaining about scenes throughout the game. Larian has completely ignored anyone's pleas on the topic until Patch 7, which is why it's come to be modded.