I rarly rarly post, but when a topic I have real interest in rears it's head, I just have to chime in. The thing is, as the OP has stated, I really feel no true end to my character and I think that is the idea, however like most people who watch a movie and it leave a cliff hanger to the next sequal, I get a bit upset by it.
The issue here is thou, the sequal will have nothing to do with the main character of the previous game, well that's fine and all, I am all about new and seeing a different part of the realm and the effects of my previous action bair fruit, but in the end, I never got my ending. One thing (as stupid as some might think this is) , I didn't get to see my character walk outside at the end and "greet the crowed" and have people kiss my feet

, lol ya, well ,... I expected it. It was nice to have the text that followed to finalize the story, but alas this reminds me again of a movie that ran out of budget and cut the ending.
Eh call me a stickler, but I like the idea of a bit more dlc, I got it all and I thought personally it was worth every cent, have to say I enjoyed Lelianna's Song the best out of all them, probably because it was that "other perspective" but in the end, still to this day, I don't feel there was a real ending or "BRAVO! WARDEN!" , same with the expansion, in the end a bunch of text, no real bravo or anything that made me feel like "hey you did it!"... I would die for such a grandour ending, but again that's me I guess and well the OP it seems.