I would've liked "In Hushed Whispers" a lot better if the alternate timeline hadn't been so janky, and if the bit with the Other Fiona was ever cleared up. "Champions of the Just" might lack the emotional punch, but it does have Ser Barris and it does have a relatively clean narrative, and it doesn't involve mai waifu getting horribly disfigured and tortured and probably widowed.
Janky? How so? I really liked how they tightly controlled the time travel stuff so that it couldn't easily be used again. I liked how could only work with the breach in existence, and how it was restricted to the time since the breach opened. I liked how you went forward once and then back, and no other messing about. I didn't have any trouble understanding what was going on. I mean yeah, it's a bit weird how your companions would just be sitting in cells near you and not dead, but I can forgive that because game mechanics, and they were quite touching when you met them.
As to Leliana, it was horrible but she was amazing, and it stiffened my resolve to defeat Coryphytits.