One thing I always found really interesting about DAI Solas was that while he was clearly prideful, his pride was always of a very different kind to the obvious villains like Corypheus, the Evanuris etc.
In Inquisition he is in many ways the exact opposite of Corypheus. He hates the idea of being worshipped, he's quite happy playing the part of the humble apostate and being overlooked, he's eager to personally pitch in to do the hard unglamorous work of helping people, and he's willing to be the butt of the joke. It's very clear that Solas' pride is not about his own personal aggrandisement: he has always genuinely wanted to help people and do the right thing, and he's willing to be forgotten or reviled for it if necessary. Rather his pride seems to be primarily manifested in his tendency toward self-isolation: thinking the burden of fixing things falls on him alone, thinking he sees how to fix things more clearly than anyone else, and being too proud to ask for help.
And that was interesting! It was a fascinating contrast to the obvious kind of pride exhibited by Corypheus, Elgar'nan etc. For me it was really thought-provoking, because being self-reliant and solving problems yourself rather than burdening others are often seen as positive qualities, but from Solas' story we learn that taken to extremes this kind of stubborn self-reliance can become harmful to yourself and to others.
Whereas in Veilguard, there's a definite attempt to make Solas just the same as all the others in terms of his pride. Such as when you walk past a golden wolf statue and Rook&Co assume Solas put it up and say it's just like him, even though anyone who paid any attention to his character in Inquisition knows that's very unlike him. Or at the end when they have him say 'I am a god' even though he's built his whole identity for thousands of years on refusing to be called a god.
I guess, giving the benefit of the doubt, you could say there's an attempt to argue for the thesis that in the end these two types of pride converge. But I just think that is untrue: being proud in the sense of excessive self-reliance does not at mean you are also proud in the sense of seeing yourself as godlike, and in fact it is often the opppsite, since the self-isolation is often linked to self-disgust and becomes a way of hurting oneself. So in practice I think the attempt to erase the differences between Solas and the Evanuris just ends up losing all the interesting nuance we had previously in examining different manifestations of pride and how even genuinely good intentions can go wrong through this kind of self-isolating pride.
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