Blood Magic Blocked forevermore because writers don't want their Heros sullied by it

All games have roads that a player can't go on. The level of player control is relative in games but in any setting, even D&D, some of the options are limited by the rule book and the story the DM wants to tell. For video games we see things all over in the spectrum. Actually Mark Darrah did an amazing job explaining this to which I meant to post here but keep forgetting:




Now I am always a fan of a middle ground of such things. I don't think that Player Agency should come before telling an interesting story with nuanced themes and powerful characters and BioWare has always hit that middle ground. On one extreme you have Bethesda, Fallout, and Skyrim. A virtual sandbox in the genre where you can do almost everything you want in that sand box regardless of consequences and everything is optional, everything can die even in some cases. The trouble is the game is then a lot more shallow, in essense a game where you can do anything becomes a game with no meaning and no depth in characters or presentation. Then you have CDPR and the Witcher on the other end of the spectrum which has an amazing on rails protagonist and thus huge thematic significance, very powerful characters and plots, but Geralt feels like a passive passenger in the world rather then an active hero. BioWare has always, for me, hit that perfect middle, generally. Your protagonists are on rails enough where you are playing a distinct role and crafts a world with actual consequences and rules, but gives you more power then the other side of the coin to where they can actively participate in the world. 

And for these reasons I don't think Blood Magic can be fixed. Not logically anyways, or without pissing off a whole lot of people (maybe including me), for entirely different reasons. It would either require a major change in how Blood Magic works (and has always worked) or a major change in how Thedas as a society views magic in general and blood magic in particular. I think most of this and most of DAs problems in general has to do with the first game really is not designed with a franchise and sequels in mind. If they did then they probably would have handled blood magic much differently.