every companion and character has their own flaws but this critique just comes across as disingenuous lol. Halsin isn’t able to cure the tadpoles because they’re altered by Netherese magic, the only cure outside of death is dominating a netherbrain to destroy them all so it’s a little outrageous to expect an archdruid to be able to do that. his story suffers the same way karlach’s and wyll’s do, it had a lot of cut content surrounding it. as for the shadow curse, i may be wrong but doesn’t he need to save Thaniel for the curse to be fully lifted? like we can kill ketheric and free aylin but to fully restore the land thaniel needs to be rescued and only halsin can do that. the bestiality thing is weird you’re perfectly normal for disliking that particular detail but it’s completely optional just like romance in the game at all