Yeah, I am firmly in group three there. Though a special honorary mention goes to the "carrion bird" comment and his whole behaviour when you take him and Gale to the drow. Admittedly this interaction made me feel disgusted of myself too. The revamp made it fine without Halsin, but I don't think anything has changed if he's involved. It's probably a little unfair to mention this again and again but the original scene deeply rattled me in how it turned both myself and Halsin into pretty horrible people.

I also feel that both Lae'zel and Gale's "fighting with you is hot" & "I like your musk" scenes are slightly played for humour (what they are saying in contrast to their highly poetic language) and in Gale's case come with enough awareness of maybe overstepping that he only gets into the full swing of things if you signal that you feel the same.

But yes, I also don't want to sour anyone's perception of their favourite charaster.