I have no idea what you all talking and arguing about, but allow me jump into the fray (because why not?) with statement - you all wrong!
Every side bring one strawman after another without intent to make a compromise and solve a problem for all, not just for you.
As much as I was able to gather from this stupid conversation: there some problem with companions created by developers. Well this problem could be solved even long before of a first game by people LOUDLY demanding full party creation and usage of YOUR OWN party from start to finish, without forced companions with (mostly) shitty personalities and stats. And so everybody can pretend that their party consist from characters with desired sexuality without "pesky gays/heterosexuals yada yada" who "ruins" their day.
But I guess everybody was busy larping as biotard to use their brain properly and in result we have this conversation.
Want (for some reason) want to play a party based D&D CRPG with voiced companions? Either demand co-op multiplayer, so you can play with your friend/random people (you know, just like real D&D) or pray to God that after Solasta finish it's development (if they will finish it) more devs will use similar idea with personality tags. Just stop supporting ideas of a Bioware, a studio which ruined genre just as much as Blizzard did.
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Curse you Bioware, your games brainwashed people into thinking that D&D RPG is about pointless (if there no sex, what the point?) romancing digital dolls with shitty stats!
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Now you can continue your pointless arguing with capability of listening similar to a brick wall (completely deaf and blind to arguments of others) and screaming as annoying and loud as wounded peacock with salt in his ass.
If someone feel disgruntled about my opinion, she/he/apache helicopter
can go fuck themselves could stop for a moment and compare conversation that goes right now with conversation about Octavia and Regongar relationships - it's the same shit all over again.
In fact, we have the same conversation after every "just like BG" game releases, which bring us to a logical conclusion that pre-made companions never make anyone happy. Idiots with radical political views will complain that game has too gay/not too gay (depends on ideology) companions, while normal people will be pissed by betrayal or unruly behavior of voiced digital dolls. Unfortunately it seems easier to bicker among themselves on forums than uniting against premade companions and solve problem altogether.