DAO and DA2's soundtracks are only notable because of the Aubrey Ashburn vocal tracks. If she had been in DA: I the soundtrack would I think be unquestionably better. As it is I think the compositions themselves are vastly superior. DA: I might sound like an epic orchestral generic soundtrack at times, but that's better than listening to grating Helm's Deep BLAAAAARG horn ripoffs.
I really cannot disagree more with the OP's assertion that Dorian is there to be gay. What a wild reduction of a complex character. Yes, his sexuality is a part of his arc, because it fits in well with the larger issues of Tevinter as he sees them, namely the obsession with status and bloodlines and resorting to forbidden magic to get your way. His arc would have been functionally identical had he been a straight man that refused to marry a women he wasn't in love with because he was in love with a different woman, because the central issue is his refusal to bow to familial duty, which happens to be framed in the context of his homosexuality. His father didn't use blood magic on him because he was gay. Plenty of people in Tevinter have side sex outside of their marriage, homosexual or otherwise. His father used blood magic on him once he refused to marry because of it.
It's also worth noting that the entirety of his character's progress as represented in Trespasser isn't about his sexuality at all; it's about accepting his father's title and accepting the possibility of changing Tevinter from an official position from the inside, instead of abandoning his family to be a vaguely directed rebel.
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