See, I find the more ruthless characters interesting, but also wrong. The golems are made from living souls, many of whom were not willing volunteers; there's no sufficient justification for continuing that practice, IMO, and very little chance that things wouldn't go that way again if the anvil is saved and given to Branka to use. Look what she did to members of her own house in her pursuit of this object. Selling the city Elves into slavery may have been a pragmatic choice, but I reject the notion that it was a right choice. And so on.

I'm a pragmatist myself, but a person has to draw the line. What's the good of saving our countrymen from the Blight if we have to kill them to do so? What's the good of stopping the Blight if we become monsters ourselves in the process? Shouldn't we first try to find another way? And since other ways also work and we still defeat the Blight, even without the golems, with Harrowmont on the throne, with Anora imprisoned and the Elves freed and the werewolves cured and the Dalish Elves safe, well, the justification for that degree of ruthlessness kind of crumbles, in my opinion.