"No Brothels to be in DA4" as per Mark Darrah Tweet.

Right... except we're not talking about sidequests. And even if we did, there were differences pointed out that have effected development of both titles and how DA team has improved side-questing in its DLCs entirely on its own. So this isn't a matter of emulation.
I have to admit, I keep scratching my head about this talking point about Witcher 3 being this dark RPG... when it simply isn't. Dark Souls is dark. Bloodborne is dark. TW3 simply has dark or gritty themes woven across it - while at the same time it has a scene where 3 Witchers get drunk and wear Yennefer's clothes, or she can catapult Geralt to the middle of the lake for being an unfaithful bastard.

It's no different for DAI. There are differences how they approach them and each does it in its own way - and whether one does it in what some arbitrarily called darker way or not doesn't make other portrayal lesser or less mature OR less satisfying.
I don't see how violently mutilating Dandelion's lover makes for a more 'satisfying story'. Especially that Priscilla's road to recovery got delegated to us being told that she got better, not even from herself. Even the whole arc of Dandelion finally settling with a woman he actually has deeper feelings for was pushed aside for the sake of "ooooh, look how gruesome it is!".

I like many things in TW3. How they handled Priscilla isn't necessarily one of them.

In fact most of what I enjoy in Witcher have little to do with 'darkness'. It's the internal politics, the witty dialogue, twists and turns of the plot, all the magical side of the world, the subversion of classical fairly tales and tropes and archetypes... you know - many things I like Dragon Age for. And I highly enjoy the fact that they offer a different spin on things and tell different stories.

I also don't require Dragon Age 'return to its darker roots' - because I never saw it as swerving from being a story that has its share of darkness and bleakness. At best they toned down on grotesque a bit.

In fact, I'd like to point out, that the last chapter ended on a very dark note: only 2 years after Inquisitor successfully saved the world from the brink the world falls apart again. They lose their hand and power that allowed them to become who they are, they're forced to scale down their organization and diminish their position in Thedas and are forced to plan a wild goose chase after a companion (and a potential friend or lover) who threatens to either destroy or change the world, and all of this happens in the background of unrest in the Imperium that is the only buffer between South (recovering from Cory AND the Blight from 10 years ago) and an invading force of Qunari that almost had a shot of destroying Southern elites by utilizing remnants of a fallen civilization.

I'm not sure I'd call the ending of Trespasser "dark." More like an infuriating lesson in how to be railroaded into incompetence.

Any sex scene that didn’t involve fucking on a shitty raft. Unless you find splinters or tipping over into the water sexy.

The lesson was less about incompetence and more about the inherent vulnerability to corruption and espionage of large powerful organizations.

Deflecting. So predictable. 😔

That’s not deflection, that’s a genuine criticism. That sex scene is dumb.

I was also totally willing to tell the Other Nobles about the shit going on, but the Game doesn't let me. 

Each to his own. But if they decide to put brothels in the game they need to do it right and not so boring.

And even if you can agree on the parameters, it's awfully subjective.

Well, if the measure of a good sex scene is having the player use their imagination then CDPR loses easily. 

Was that a soluble problem? I thought the takeaway there was that the ease of infiltration was a consequence of the rotten society the Inquistion comes from.

And of course, the limited amount of control the Inquisitor actually has over the Inquisition is one of the major themes of the game.