Clearly Larian had to call it a day and get the game out. It's easy to see in sidekick personalities, where there aren't any really, and in the bunch of henchmen that have been thrown in to alleviate there being only 2 companions. The rock paper scissors game is probably also an addon or placeholder of sorts.

I don't mind these things (bar rock paper scissors), as you get on with the game.

But maybe it was a DLC idea, to make DLC for modders. I don't know what voiceovers cost, but lets say they make 5 chars who are vioced with a certain number of phrases. Maybe 500-1000 lines of different sorts I don't know how long that would take and cost.

So there's a female wizard for example. A modder can now put her in his mod and chose from her lines what she should say in a given circumstance. Of course the modder would have to be creative, but he could take the voice and put it on a different Pixel or character for example.

If Larian could sell such voiced chars in stacks of 3-5 or so, they could make DLC that modders would love, as voices are something where modders fall short.

If players needed the DLC to play such a mod, perhaps, as Larian of course needs to sell enough DLC to make money, and as such keep the DLC price down.

Just a thought, as it is difficult to envision extra gameplay DLC, when modders will be making alot of extra gameplay.

Maybe there are other ideas, that provide tools and addons you can purchase.