What do you mean by "writing"?.
Whats the point of repeating mine and everyone else's points...read the thread and the discussions from the beginning . Points are repeated many times, many people got to the same conclusion while playing this game.
Here's one most didn't pick up on, completely asinine,unsubtle and cringy portrayal of religion. It's like the writers wanted shamelessly to push their agenda, without paying attention to the previous games, or the lore itself, or the moral ambiguity CPDR is supposed to excel at.
The eternal fire are one of the most dimensional groups of people I've seen. The priests and devout people you interact with are all thugs, murderers, , thiefs, drug dealers, they torture women for no reason,etc. There isn't a single decent or even half decent person among the bunch. They burn books, people, non-humans, etc.
And there's barely any explanation to why this is, except that they're religious and evil..
Novigrad was always ruled by the Eternal Fire before , and they kept the city independent, growing, booming economy, science etc. Triss says the mages all went to hide there because they thought they would be safe. Yet what changed to turn them into these one dimensional caricatures who hate books and progress? Their leader didn't change, Hemmelfart was the leader in the books too. The game never explains. There's no transition, no corruption from dop down for example. No good eternal fire characters who help people or do missionary work for victims of the war. Only pure evil because the writers don't know anything about subtlety .
You might say oh, but there's this witch hunt against the mages because of the previous game. Well yes, the previous game set up very well why there would be a witch hunt, but this game ignores that. They literally never mention that the sorceresses plotted, killed kings, destroyed armies and the north. But no one mentions that, no one makes any arguments against the mages, that might make you think the conflict might have two sides. The case against the mages could certianly be made and W2 did it, But no, and except for mages they also burn alchemists, herbalists , nonhumans, books in case you they were subtle enough to tell you who the bad side is. You don't want any moral ambiguity in the game , even though they claim to have it on the steam page.
One of the more cringeworthy conversations is with Djikstra at the docks who has history with sorceresses and should really know better but he frames the entire conflict as this sort of progress vs religion and biggotry, and the mages represent the progress, and the organization that ruled Novigrad, this huge diverse city represent the other side.
It was a one sided conflict, and the game finds a hundred ways to tell you how eavle the eternal fire are yet not a single character makes a case against mages and everyone ignores what happened in the previous game.
And no I'm not religious I just found it offensive how poorly this was done, and how they ignored common sense, the previous game,meme ambiguity, to push their cringe agenda and make things as straightforward and one dimensional as possible
I can't believe I'm saying this but they should learn from Bioware.