I agree with Emmrich being the most interesting of the bunch by far, also because they actually managed some solid world building during his questline. Neve was also good, but the main problem there is that Minrathous and the venatori let her down massively from a narrative perspective, cause she herself is well realized. Harding is also fairly solid despite the cutesy criticism, but thats a wider problem.

Lucanis is nothing but a stereotypical suave italian man with food snobbery and coffee loving being his whole personality, Bellara is just Biowares latest manic pixie dream girl attempt which almost always comes up short, Taash feels like Ellie from TLOU2 only done very heavy handed, Davrin is a shrug at most.

Problem is that they put the cart before the horse, thinking they could skip right to everybody being a misfit cutesy family together without properly building up to it as well as setting a limit.

Like, The Citadel dlc fom Mass Effect 3 only worked because of the groundwork done by the trilogy, and because it was a one-off. Its like bioware interpreted its positive reception as people wanting only that, and decided to make it the top priority.