I think that plays into the beauty the author is talking about though. The impact lessens if Bethesda answers it directly? Is your Sole Survivor a synth? Maybe they aren’t, but mine is. Maybe one of your playthroughs is and another isn’t.

I feel like I’m the opposite of normal on this. While I’ve read some of the short stories, and wiki articles, My main experience (and my first experience) was with the games, and in Witcher 1 and 2, Triss all the way, but for 3 it just made way more sense to me that Geralt reconnect with Yen and I loved that…