It's really, let's say, interesting seeing people who are really drawn to Lucanis's generous spirit and tenderheartedness and sense of compassion try to frame Lucanis as not actually liking being a Crow and trying to put forward that he's lying to himself about being well-suited to his job and good at it, finding it to be his calling, and taking satisfaction in it.
There's a general sense among a particular slice of folks that him having a gentle spirit and someone who loves deeply means that he does not actually enjoy being an assassin, a killer, and that he is actually deeply unhappy at heart. Underneath that, there seems to be a discomfort with the idea that someone who is as caring and giving, even nurturing, as Lucanis can also have very few issues with what he does professionally and can see these two sides of himself as not in conflict at all—so, as a way to navigate that discomfort, they take that friction they have with that part of him and read it into Lucanis by seeing Lucanis himself as experiencing friction between those two sides. Often, they further conflate his hesitance to be First Talon (a whole other kettle) with his dedication to being a Crow.
Lucanis loves his job, actually. He loves being an assassin, and he finds great personal satisfaction in a well-executed kill. Him having a gentle heart, a great capacity for empathy, and a desire to love and give generously to those he cares for in service is not something that he sees at all as opposing or conflicting because he organizes his life very strictly to maintain this. He maintains this contrast with ease, and there isn't actually much of a cognitive dissonance for him due to the way he compartmentalizes his life and other people. He spends a lot of time arguing with Davrin about this very thing, after all!
Trying to argue that his gentleness and softness for those he cares for inherently points to a deeper inner turmoil about how he holds himself as a professional person hunter and a contract killer tends to SIMPLIFY Lucanis instead of bringing out any complications about him as a character. He is both things, and he does not see them in conflict, and they aren't actually.
