What would you accept for a "better" DA4?

Well, assuming that there even is a single player campaign, which is by no means certain, and assuming that the game even has any companions having a smaller world is a total no brainer.

These big Bioware semi-open worlds, consisting of huge unlinked areas might look good, but I'm certainly not alone in struggling with burn out and boredom after hours and hours of shlepping over miles of terrain, constantly battling my way through respawning creatures in order to fetch a pristine boar spleen to an NPC in a hut on the other side of the map, and then repeating the same thing fifty thousand times until it becomes a meaningless blur.

Give me a tight, relatively linear experience; but a well-crafted linear experience with tonnes of attention to detail within the environment. Make side quests tie in to the main plot in an organic manner - for example, if the main plot is to destroy the Wogarbullie Poohahs, have most of the side quests based around gathering intelligence on the nature of Wogarbullie Poobahs, and discovering weapons to combat them - along with a few more fun, humourous or leftfield quests thrown in... and don't forget those companion quests!

*Sigh* I know I'm wasting my time though. I doubt anything will change. The bioware we have now is not the same Bioware who made KOTOR, Mass Effect and DA:O. Those guys have mostly moved on. Instead we have an EA subsidiary, and one whose main goal is too look at what's trendy in other game franchises, and copy it with a view to making as much cash as humanly possible - hence the whole "games as live service" thing that was revealed earlier.

I fully expect DA:4 to be a multiplayer-only looter shooter, where players are put into some sort of matchmaking lobby, before being flown to a location on a back of a gryphon, and engage in horde mode combat for points which can be spent on loot - with an option to shortcut the whole process via a cash shop offering powerful pay to win items, and services such as instant level boosts, loot boxes etc.

Not that I'm cynical or anything.....