I feel a bit disappointed that they didn't at least address the fall out from suddenly taking the majority of your power away from you. At the end of the main game you have built the Inquisition up into a force to be reckoned with. What I liked about that is that I had played my Inquisitor as being politically and religiously neutral for the most part and very much a champion for all those little people out there without a voice. It was like you were a conscience for all those selfish nobles too wrapped up in keeping and improving their own power rather than working for the good of all. That was the bit I most regretted losing. There was no distinction drawn between an Inquisitor like mine and one who had been criticised by companions for being selfish and power hungry. There was no indication of how the ordinary people felt about this attack on their saviour (if they had acted in that way). Particularly if you had embraced the role and were a believer, you were meant to be a holy person, revered as the Maker's chosen. Surely the rulers in attacking you were insulting the Maker? Yet this was never even touched upon. All through the main game the issue of faith had been forced on us and then in Trespasser it was suddenly not important at all.
Our rebuff to Teagan was not nearly strong enough to my mind. He had done nothing to help the people of Crestwood, nor had anyone else from the Ferelden nobility. Bandits occupied the castle, the villagers were beset with undead and there was a dragon flying around the place. What had anyone from the Ferelden nobility done for the Hinterlands? Teagan stayed in his castle until the Venatori kicked him out. After we had resolved the mage/Templar situation, the area continued to be beset by bandits, Red Templars and Venatori, yet I saw no evidence of any of the regular forces dealing with it. At the end of Hushed Whispers the monarch turns up with their army but then apparently heads straight home again. Apart from the odd war table mission it was like the nobles of Ferelden had gone on holiday. So to justify taking our presence away from there, I'd at least have liked some sort of dialogue to have taken place in game to show that the "rightful" rulers were assuming responsibility again. As things stood, as others have said, you'd think you could have simply stayed put and said "If you don't like it, do something about it." All the people I helped in Ferelden would have backed me ahead of the absent landlords.
A similar situation was really there in Orlais. They had just been ravaged by civil war. I'm actually surprised their soldiers were still in such good shape in the Exalted Plains considering they had been beset by undead as well. Still I don't feel that two years was long enough for the various nobles to restore their forces to pre civil war levels. Plus they are all constantly plotting against one another. At the end of the main game it was stated that they did not move against Briala because they feared her relationship to the Inquisitor and respected the Inquisition. So we were strong enough to withstand the might of the nobility then; why surrender our control so tamely? I must assume that immediately after the end of Trespasser, the situation would have changed; Briala assassinated or at least removed from power, Gaspard probably ousted as well considering he had been her puppet. Yet Solas thinks he has set up a situation where we are going to have a few years of relative peace. Some hope!
I very much doubt that Ferelden would have been willing to join forces with Orlais (even though we had negotiated a peace treaty). Short of the Divine calling an Exalted March against the Inquisition, which would have been an interesting twist, it seemed to me to be a very odd situation where we went from having an organisation that everyone feared/respected because they had the equivalent power to a nation state, with well fortified strongholds across the south, to an organisation that was weak enough for us to be bullied into surrendering it. Even if you don't disband the Inquisition, it is very much reduced in scope to just a token peace keeping force under the auspices of the Divine and thus the Chantry. Where has the political neutrality gone in that?
My Inquisitor has headed to the Freemarches, where as an elven Inquisitor, with the backing of the Vicount of Kirkwall and political power in Wycombe, plus the co-operation of the Red Jennies, I feel I still do have a significant role in championing the ordinary people. It is just a pity that Trespasser seemed to be very much a one size fits all ending that takes no account of how the Inquisitor conducted themselves when it came to the reaction of the secular powers and the reason for you abdicating from the role you had played up to then. When all is said and done, we had just foiled a Qunari plot to take over all of southern Thedas, so it seemed to me that clearly our presence was needed. Every organisation has its problems with spies; we'd dealt with enough Venatori ones in the course of the game. I couldn't believe it when Josephine turned on me and started complaining about my tactics. My actions were no different to how they had been throughout the rest of the game when she thought I was wonderful. My more dubious decision then (letting Celene die) and in Trespasser had the full backing of Divine Leliana, but apparently now our organisation is corrupt. This is why I prefer the aggressive disband option because it just about summed up how I felt.
Whilst I would not have wanted harm done to my Inquisitor, I must admit that an ending where you were kidnapped from your stronghold and then taken off to be burnt at the stake, would have had a certain sort of irony about it, with the twist being that this time the people rise up in your defence.