If they autolevel companions and they introduce new companions we'll just go right back to making one of the companions a crafting mule ... which is what most of us wanted out of the henchmen in the first place.
Of course. Because crafting/blacksmithing should be secondary skills. They shouldn't compete for ability points with combat abilities. The way they're implemented in D:OS is a typical example of lazy design.
And instead of fixing their poor design decisions Larian "solved" the problem by making henchmen useless.
