Have Bioware's recent actions changed your mind?

For me it's less that Sylvans golems or werewolves are so amazing on their own right, it's more that they are an example of the pseudo original lore of DA
that has nothing to do with modern-day problems and politics, and everything to do with evoking wonder and potentially immersing the player in an original and interesting fantasy world.

The mage-templar conflict, the Elven issue, the Qun, Tavinter, and similar all became at some point after DA:O ammunition for the writers to insert their their morals and beliefs into the story,
at least to some degree. They made sure to include enough similarities to real world problems, and subsequently made the endless arguments on those topics into sock-puppets for real-life political debates.
(of course, part of it is whether or not X fantastical group can be considered a representative to X real life group, but that's just part of the debate.)

This takes a perfectly good role-playing game, and transforms it into a private soapbox for the writer's chosen political agenda, where things like theme and lore consistency are bent or outright broken
when they interfere with the holy crusade, or whatever poignant point the writer felt like making this time about modern issues.


Instead of a unifying element that makes people with different political opinions sit down and be entertained by quality stories and imaginative concepts,
it becomes yet another divisive proxy for the political battlefield.


As for in-game examples, Dragons seem to have become dumber, if you compare them to "Andraste" from DA:O that apparently was smart enough to cooperate with a cult and give them her blood.

Corypheus is less of a classical darkspawn and more a tainted ancient Magister, he is not a new creature, but rather a very old one.

The Mabari shopkeeper is probably there just guarding the shop. Personally I thought that the owner probably got killed, and the dog was guarding it still due to his loyalty.

As for the Envy demon, I never actually got to play this side of the game, but still, for the most part the intelligent and manipulative creatures of DA:O / DA:2 became spell-fodder.
(and desire demos *totally* disappeared because of some half-arsed lore reason - certainly not because their design was not politically correct... right?... *facepalm*)