When dialogue has limited meaningless options

In terms of whether or not you'll get certain quests yes, but characters do remember that you lied to them and will comment on it - if you walk past an npc with a miniquest that you were mean to you'll still hear they're angry or happy with you etc.

Which is most of it if you’re tryna be evil.

I'll give you that - the MC is definitely a very polite and wholesome person outside a few options to bully people. Even the "mean" choices don't usually play out all that mean.

It's definitely a creative choice that the game will let you use evil magic but will not let you be utterly cruel in dialoge. Not sure I feel all that bad for people who wanted to play this game as sociopathically as possible, even if I understand the criticism.