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1. If Hawke was left in the Fade, we can assume that the armor that appears at the Lighthouse was actually left there by Hawke, who is now running around the Fade butt-naked.
2. The armor is always that of a Mage Hawke, implying that Hawke is canonically a mage in Veilguard.
3. It is possible to finish the game while wearing Hawke's armor.
4. In the bad ending, Rook is pulled into the Fade with Solas.
5. In a bad ending where Hawke was left in the Fade, this means that Solas is trapped in the Fade with both Hawke and Rook.
6. Both Hawke and Rook really liked Varric.
7. Even if Solas stabbing Rook was a mortal wound, a Mage Hawke could theoretically cure that wound.

Conclusion:

In Veilguard's bad ending, Solas spends the rest of eternity getting his ass beat by a butt-naked Hawke and Rook (who may very well be wearing Hawke's armor), while they keep yelling "This is for Varric you stupid Egg!" at him.

And it's how it magically goes away after just one conversation with Zaheer.

Instead of learning how to healthily manage and live with her trauma, it just goes away completely, never to be seen again. Suddenly her flashbacks/hallucinations are a thing of the past, she's back to normal, and all is right with the world. This is a very dangerous message for any young viewer who actually suffers from trauma (and potentially dangerous for older viewers as well). It reinforces the "you are broken and need to be fixed" & "you need to get back to normal" presentations of mental health struggles.

My reason is simple: Too many theories about what the plot will entail.

At this point, a lot of the fandom already has their personal theory as to what the cataclysm is, what Korra's level of blame is, whether the past lives will or won't be restored, what the main conflict is, whether the leaks about both twins bending all four elements is true or not, etc.

Those theories create expectations for how the story of Seven Havens will unfold. Then, for those whose theories end up being completely wrong, those expectations will be "betrayed" and Seven Havens will be seen as a let-down for not conforming to the "better" story fans thought up in their heads. Especially since these theories will have had YEARS to germinate and disseminate within the fandom before the series comes out.

The funny thing is, we might not even know about Seven Havens yet if not for the leaks. Had Avatar Studios been able to announce the series when they planned, there would have been far less time to build up what the series will be in our heads before a trailer comes along to temper our expectations.

A common criticism I've seen of TLOK (more specifically, of Book 2), is that Tenzin tells Korra that she's a long way from mastering Airbending (having only mastered "Korra-Style" airbending), then never trains her in airbending for the rest of Book 2, and then tells her that "[he has] nothing left to teach [her]," after Unavaatu is defeated.

So, despite no further training, she goes from not having mastered airbending to having mastered it. Bad writing, right? I myself have been guilty of making this criticism.

But, upon another rewatch of the series, I found that there IS a time period where we see Tenzin continuing Korra's airbending training.

Book 2, Episode 12, Harmonic Convergence. We see Tenzin Training Korra in Airbending on Varrick's ship. The implication is that he's been completing her Airbending Training during the voyage to the South Pole. And since they are both incredibly determined to see the coming battle through, they are more in sync as master-&-pupil then they have been anytime earlier in the series, which is why this (mostly offscreen) training goes so smoothly.

https://preview.redd.it/u0h226mnho4h1.jpg?width=1919&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c05c2b7b89cec17a13c1b6ffc41e56b465769e84

https://preview.redd.it/a6rf96mnho4h1.jpg?width=1920&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=88a2e73d442d168dbc777787250dab513925ebd9

Now, does this magically prove the criticism wrong? No, I don't think so. The fact that a very large number of audience members either forget or didn't understand this scene is proof that the message of Tenzin completing Korra's airbending Training during this voyage was not properly conveyed.

So, ultimately, I still think it's a point of weak writing, but it isn't a neglected plot point.