Morrigan not knowing shit about elven lore in inquisition was the point.
One of the themes of inquisition was being confidently incorrect about things because you know a little more than the people around you.
Cassandra confidently arrests the inquisitor for the murder of the divine, fully believing she’s right. She’s wrong.
Everyone names the inqusitor the herald of andraste, fully believing this person was hand picked by their prophet in their time of need. They are wrong.
The chantry and templars think they know what the right of tranquility is, they’re wrong.
Cassandra thinks she knows what the seekers are, she’s wrong.
The grey wardens think that using blood magic and demons they can kill the remaining archdemons and end all blights, they’re wrong.
Every single person and institution who ever claimed to know anything is proven thoroughly, and occasionally embarrassingly, wrong (and this fate comes to solas in veilguard, because he is not immune to overconfidence in his assumptions) and Morrigan is included in that and that is the point.
Her lack of knowledge is textual. She’s not just there to fill a role as elven expert to tell the inqusitor stuff, she is there specifically as a human woman who thinks she’s an expert on elven culture but actually just knows a little more than the average person and isn’t really all that knowledgeable at all because that’s a low bar.
An example of this is when she spends ages telling us about how corypheus must be after the eluvian. She’s completely confident in this conclusion, and she’s happy that she is the one who gets to share it, to be the source of knowledge. She’s wrong, it’s not the eluvian corypheus is after. He doesn’t even know there’s one there. It’s a much more important and valuable artefact, one that Morrigan didn’t know existed. It’s an embarrassing mistake, and one she awkwardly tries to save face on by pointing out there is still an eluvian so she was right about that at least. That isn’t just the player seeing she’s not actually all that knowledgeable, her lack of knowledge is textual. Her role in this is specifically that she doesn’t know what she is talking about.
It wouldn’t have worked if her role in the story was filled by an elf actually knowledgeable in elven lore, for example Merrill, because they’d actually know what they’re talking about and be aware of gaps in knowledge and willing to be proven wrong about things, and that part of the story would completely fall apart, because it’s not actually about having an expert on elven lore, it’s about having someone who pretends to be but is very much not.
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