Havent even used a henchman yet, Wolgraff is my goto NPC, I had Bairdotr but she is not as much to my preferences. I always lone wolf at lkeast one of my chars so never need more than 1 NPC. I want to Lon WOlf both PC's but wonder about the way it would play, sometimes I fell pretty heavily outnumbered.
Wolgraff is actually a lot like another PC.
I think 2 PC's does work pretty well, if I designed all four I would probably want fewer but better PC's instead....which is what it works out to be like now anyway.
Maybe OP didnt realize your PC's can each have a follower if not lone wolfed. Makes sense I didnt know anything about this game before I bought it. But I am very glad I did.