Working for your past self and how would 50/50 protag be satisfying. Explain.

Honestly it can't really be a 50/50 split I doubt they could pull it off. But alihou is onto something here that I have been thinking because I think, for me, ideally the next Dragon Age will have basically two storylines going on, they will effect one another and be part of the same story, but you will have a higher meta level narrative which will be Solas V Inquisition. This will be the politics and the nation building and the moving around of chess pieces by bigger powers. And then you will have the down to Earth Hawke level narrative which will focus on our protagonist and the Qunari v Tevinter war. Now the protagonist, the new one, will still have a role to play to stopping Solas but the Solas plot will be the backdrop for the grand theater.

So I think while the character will have a very vested interest in stopping Solas...but that does not mean they have to think the Inquisition is playing with a full deck either.

I prefer the idea of the free agent who chooses which missions (and factions) he or she is going to do.

I believe it would fit better with the idea of a low profile while searching for Solas and giving he players the chance to decide which side you are on.

I think the ex-Inquisitor will be a big NPC but not the protagonist.

I don’t think a 50/50 split would work, both because of the resources involved and it would leave the new protagonist with very little space to come into their own.

Better to give the Inquisitor a limited selection of missions taking place as the new protagonist reaches major story beats. They will advance the plot on their end and take part in high level decision making with Dorian, possibly setting goals for the new protagonist (Which they may or may not stray from).

Yes, it does sound weird and I dislike it. It's like the opposite of a promotion where you're taking orders from your own Inquisitor; the same Inquisitor that you played and bonded with in DAI ....... just no. Just let us play the Inquisitor or give us a whole new protag. None of this inbetween business.

Edit: Not saying if we do have a new protag, that the Inquisitor shouldn't make appearances. Just don't want to be under the Inquisition taking orders from the Inky. That's what's strange.

If the Inquisitior came back as protagonist (which is a pretty big if), I'd imagine they'd handle it a lot like the continuing romances in the Mass Effect trilogy. You could continue with returning companions, but some would have more or less content, and some might be small cameos only, to make room for new companions/characters. In DAI, some romances got more content, and some had more or less satisfying endings than others. A few were left open ended or could be dead, etc. That trend will probably continue, the more romances options they add. 

If so, to Bioware I say

TBH I think that' a matter of interpretation though because at the end of the game my Inquisitor's do pretty much say my own adventuring days are done regardless of whether the Inquisition stays or disbands and with only one full working arm now I can't really disagree.I think they just left an opening if they wanted to bring them back in the future but not necessarily confirm it. But I think it's more likely that at best we'll only see them in a side missions/questline much like we did with Hawke.. Before anyone jumps on me though I'm not against the idea of the Inquisitor coming back as the protag I just feel it's unlikely due to the way DA's stories are usually written

Yeah in my case I'm not really for or against the Inquisitor's return and whilst I don't use Solas much beyond the initial stages of the game that's more due to my quizzy being a mage themselves so therefore normally they're playing the role Solas plays within the team anyway rather than not liking him. I think most of my quizzy's respected him even if they don't like his idea of an end goal. I do tend to use either him or Viv more when I'm playing a non mage though

But it doesn't beg for Inquisitor to return as a PROTAGONIST.

For some like myself it absolutely does not.

Again, let's not forget the Hawke thing. Their original plan, their original tagline was "Rise to Power". Myself and many others, back on the old forum, speculated that this implied that DA2 would be Hawke rising to power, and DA3 would be Hawke exercising this power they have risen to. Hawke was destined to be "The most important person in the history of Thedas". They would change the world. It was constantly shoved down our throats how unbelievably important Hawke was going to be. Dragon Age was going to be Hawkes story, just like Mass Effect was Shepards story.

DA2 bombed, and in typical Bioware fashion, rather than fix the problems for the next game, they just scrap and gut everything and start over. Now I'll be the first to admit that I don't really like DA2 at all. But even I can admit that for a game that was cobbled together in 18 months, there was a lot of potential and promise to be found, and I honestly weep for the Dragon Age 2 that we could have had if Bioware had enough time to actually get a real go of it. With that being said, maybe, just maybe, Bioware never really abandoned their plan, they just changed who the chosen one is. The stand in they made to take Hawkes place in the story. Because honestly, DAI was Hawkes story imo, and I feel it would have been a superior game if Hawke was the Inquisitor. I say that as someone who didn't like DA2 and does not really like Hawke all that much.

The Exalted March DLC would have truly given us the Mage/Templar war a lot of people were hoping for. Instead it was canned, and what work they had done was thrown into the first act of DAI, hence why it feels so rushed and and underwhelming. The damage caused by EA rushing DA2 so damn hard has truly rippled so very far...My point is, from my perspective, the way the story has been written, it's as if they kept going as if Hawke was still The Guy, they just changed Hawkes name to "Inquisitor" in terms of script. DAI felt like it should have been Hawke, and Trespasser feels like it should still be the the character from DAI, who should have been Hawke...