Abandoned? Starting to look that way. Nothing from EA/BW about looking into it and no mention in the patch notes for patch 10 that came out yesterday. Maybe they did and just didn't mention it but it seems like a sufficiently widespread problem that it'd be worth mentioning if they'd fixed it. In the absence of a fix it looks like the least annoying way to use the Black Emporium is:
1 - set aside about a weekend for non-stop gold farming
2 - go to the Black Emporium
3 - buy everything you think you might possibly want in this playthrough
4 - leave
5 - reboot
6 - never go back
I'm not that invested in what the Inquisitor wears around Skyhold but I would like to hit the Black Emporium for extra dragonbone without having to reboot the bloody console afterwards.