Good thoughts Qixus. I mostly disagree, but I think some of your ideas are possible and interesting.
You raise a good question about the Joining. I don't remember the lore exactly, but I think it says the Joining was created by Tevinter magisters in cooperation with the Anders who were fighting the Blight. So maybe their rituals involved binding magic of some sort, and maybe this is how Corypheus was able to control them. But the questions are, does Solas know this? And if so, is it his reason for disliking the Grey Wardens?
I don't think it is. I think his dislike for the Wardens is much more generic. There are a lot of people who dislike the Wardens for the things they do. My Hero of Ferelden is one of them. My Champion of Kirkwall was another. The ones who mainly seem to like them are those who are ignorant to their true nature, or those who look past it and only see the tremendous sacrifices they have to make to keep the world safe from the taint. To this extent I don't think Solas' dislike of the Wardens is anything special. He sees the organization for what it really is, he sees how easily they were corrupted and twisted from purpose, and he sees how unwilling they are to ponder alternative methods or possibilities. Of course he won't respect them.
That isn't to say he doesn't respect any of them. He watched the Hero of Ferelden and Alistair light the beacon at Ishal. So he knows that honorable Wardens exist. This might even play into why he doesn't like the organization. He sees so many good men and women go to waste within the order because they are ignored or misused.
It is possible that the darkspawn act similar to the Well of Sorrows, or rather, the taint inside them does. Like how Mythal's consciousness seems to have gone to the Well after her murder, an archdemon that dies from anything other than a Grey Warden will go to the nearest tainted creature. I think you made an interesting connection here, and you're probably right. The Architect talks about the song and how his version of the Joining ritual disconnects the darkspawn from it. They are still probably connected to the taint, but they aren't necessarily controlled by it anymore. This control is probably similar to Mythal's compulsion.
As for the old gods being the Forgotten Ones, that isn't possible. For starters, the old gods endured whatever happened with Solas and the evanuris. They existed before the event, and they existed afterward. They were then worshiped by Tevinter both in the flesh and in spirit. It was said somewhere in the DA:I lore that Razikale even resided in Minrathous for a time. So humans worshiped the old gods in the real world at some point. During this time, Tevinter had rapidly expanded, even into the elven lands. This is where Tevinter picked the bones of the elven empire clean. So this was after Solas banished the evanuris. I don't think Tevinter could really surge until after the evanuris had been dealt with. Before this time, I think they were just call the Neromenians, and they didn't really have a country to speak of until Tevinter. I think I also read that the dwarves allied with the Neromenians and gave them the first real unified language (which is Thedosian, and used in the present day).
Also, the Forgotten Ones do have names. Three of them have been identified, and so far as we know, that's all of them. One of them is Gelduran, and his "tomb" can be found in the Frostback Basin. It is similar to the tombs in the Forbidden Oasis; elven made. There is also a story of one of the Forgotten Ones capturing Fen'Harel, who was being hunted by Andruil. When she caught up to him, she made a claim against this Forgotten One that Fen'Harel was her prey to do with as she pleased. The two of them fought over the right to administer their own justice to Fen'Harel, and in the end both of them wounded each other to the point where Fen'Harel was able to escape. What this suggests is that the Forgotten Ones are like the evanuris. So I don't think the Forgotten Ones are anything like the old gods, which are dragons.
And like I said, the Forgotten One have names, and the names of the old gods are different. But I understand you aren't going to get into this side discussion. Just my thoughts.
As to why Flemeth and Mythal are interested in Urthemiel's soul, I think that's just a matter of one or both of them wanting to preserve ancient magic, power, and knowledge. The soul can be useful to accomplishing Mythal's goals.
Archdemons are not biological prisons for the old gods. An old god is a powerful spirit in the body of a great dragon, and these dragons are physically sealed away underground. To write that the Grey Warden who makes the final blow releases the old god's soul is speculation. As far as we know, the final blow causes the old god's soul to be drawn into that Grey Warden, where the Warden's soul and the old god soul destroy each other completely. It's possible that both souls simply go to the Fade, but this can't be confirmed. As far as we know, the Warden's soul is what blocks the old god soul from reaching its "Well of Sorrows".
I don't think Solas has anything against killing the archdemons. I think his only complaint was in killing the remaining old gods, because doing so probably won't end the darkspawn menace. There will be no more archdemons to rise up to command a blight, but this only means the darkspawn will be more chaotic and misdirected, and will likely make an all out assault on the dwarves and the surface.
According to Solas, the evanuris are locked away because of the Veil. Souls, no matter how powerful, will have no effect in removing the barrier that keeps the evanuris locked away. Besides, Solas himself planned to release the evanuris anyway once his orb was unlocked. He claims he had plans for them.
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