I mean, Tav's facial expressions have nothing to do with Larian's vision of AA. His actions remained the same. It's only about Larian's vision of Tav's reaction. Fans said that Larian took away their agency since their Tav would be happy with such treatment. That's a good point. Larian is all about players' freedom.
More than that, they continued to reinforce AA as controlling and verbally abusive, in my opinion. His new line: "You didn't leave me, I let you go" confirms it for me.
So, since, in my opinion, Larian's vision of AA is still the same, I really hope that Larian brings back the agency to the other side of this argument too (with an option to choose, as I've already requested) and let us play how we were playing all these 6 months before Patch 7. It would be a fair treatment, not favoring only one Tav's RP instead of the other. Not all fans want to see their Tav being happy with such treatment, this reaction is completely valid, and this game is all about personal RPs and players having freedom in how they imagine their Tavs.