Agree. To me it doesn't remotely read "I don't want you to touch me." He's clearly enjoying his LI. More "I finally get to be touched under *my* terms." And he gets to be deliciously indulgent with it because he's a master vampire. When are they not indulgent? Which is really fun to me.
Though yeah, @Ryzaki, I would've been fine with just patch 5 kisses too.
When the spawn/Karlach kiss was leaked, people were asking for it for AA, too. And no one was calling it anything drastic then. I do think there's a bit of a double standard in judgement. When spawn does it, it's fine, but when AA does it, it gets a really... unnecessarily harsh view, in my opinion.
Yeah I'm upset because I actually liked my AAxDurge relationship and those kisses really messed it up for me. (Well that and the drama around them). So I'm pretty salty a ship I enjoyed got ruined for me because of a post launch patch.
But agreed about the double standards I see it pretty often too.