I just got done with the High Ground quest and im not sure how much they changed, but it certainly feels like they just cut Liadens part out of it, mostly. It is much better though for the simple reason the whole cringe energy of them wanting Liaden to take the Dawnsword is gone. I fucking hated how much they they wanted that boring character to be the one who proved "worthy" and how much they almost resented the player for not letting her have it, truly felt like peak my precious oc writing. That alone is always gonna make me pick the option to remove her from this game. No involvement of Azzy of course, anything special can't be happening for the player, nope. They couldn't just rewrite some bits about the quest and make her swoon for you instead, nope, too much work probably...... like 30 minutes or something.
I would recommend taking Ryn with you since she does have some nice input an love to show for the pc.