Give me the same opportunity with all the companions in the game. If you want different "facial expression" sets, it's fair to do it for EVERYONE. Not just for Ascended Astarion. I'll say it again, but I think that's what you're accomplishing by trying to provoke people

I'm neither provoking people nor being unfair. You've not given an argument in either thread for why it is unfair. You continue to insist it is. That is detrimental to discourse. I really cannot see why or how someone could come to that conclusion. It's as if someone said "either give everyone the choice SH has OR remove the Shar path, I don't care about your opinion, having it in the game is inherently unfair". I could guess you think investing so much work into coding flags is unfair, but then again, why "unfair"? Some routes need more investment to work than others, but that doesn't mean they really have more going on -- provided other routes have their own strengths. Which, yes, they largely do.