Instead of making a 100-150 hours game, make a 50h where choices REALLY matter.

Hawke bought his/her wears, weapons and potions (or... cut out of the dragon's stomach, as a hero usually...). S/He was a fighter, not a craftsman. Perfect.

Yeah. This is why I want the Inquisitor as a controllable protagonist. If they aren’t, I don’t even want them in the game at all. Bioware has a penchant for ruining previous protagonists and I don’t want the Inquisitor suffering the same fate.

Yes. If the Inquisitor will back, I'm sure s/he will be a mediocre, boring nobody, without any personality. The Inquisitor was the most colourless protagonist, but I wouldn't be surprised if even those few colours would fade in DA4, what s/he ever had before. Anyway, I don't really want the Inquisitor back. (But I'm curious, what's the Dorian-mancer Inquisitor end with Dorian... but I'm not sure, I would happy with the outcome...)

I don’t. As I’ve said, they are my favorite protagonist but besides that if they aren’t the protagonist then all the potential with the Solas storyline is gone. With a new person, he is just another Corypheus.

Understood.

I played Hawke as a generally good egg so no issue.
A potential problem though for any NPC that used to be a player-character.

It was nice to see Hawke again though...

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I would expect the Inquisitor to reappear, a bit like a Luke Skywalker, I imagine...

But that's a weird idea to me, because I have a Blood Mage Warden, and she is not a bad egg.

But even if you play a non blood mage Hawke, you could have romanced Merril or just been fine with her actions as a friend.

I "fix" the whole DAI Hawke Blood magic issue by just framing it as being against blood magic that sacrifices people, which is the only kind of blood magic Hawke is interacting with come DAI.

I actually liked to play MMOs, for example, the WoW, but I was the laziest player. pvp-ed and raided for my gear and weapons, rather would gather anything... My characters never had golds, reputations with the cityes, anything but good gear from raids and pvp (only one-two crafted things).

People have many mandatory things in the real life (learn, lesson, homework, later: work...), I don't want to see these in-game.

The Inquisitor will make an appearance. Hopefully as the main character. If not, possibly in some kind of an advisor's position helping the new main character.

Ranking how I want the Inquisitor to return:
1. As the protagonist
2. As a protagonist(if they do a dual protagonist thing)
3. Not at all
4. Vague references by characters who know them.
5. As a NPC.

Of those, I'd only be happy with 1 or 2 but wil take 3 over 4 or 5 which I do not want at all.

People vastly overestimate how much is actually carried over into each game... The point is to maintain consistency, not to make each game a direct sequel of the one before.

They also overestimate how much of the total writing budget is attributed  to those "100 hours" compared to those "50". In fact a lot of those extra "50" are just used on combat, moving around, and general side quests with very little writing to add small tidbits to the lore and some immersion in the story controlled by the player, like a human choosing/denying an elf's request to visit a grave being indicative of their character.

The current system is fine. DAI in particular had excellent branching within the main story.

Hilariously, the Hawke of mine who ended up 100% in character was the blood mage. She was forever shaking her fist and yelling 'CURSE THOSE BLOOD MAGES!!!' in front of Templars, then running around the corner to do some blood magic with Merrill.

I want a new character. I have no connection to the Inquisitor.

Also they are missing a damned arm. As far as I'm concerned, they're retired.