the actual companions should just be companions, drop the origin character thing and let us make our own character and simply meet interesting people along the journey.
100% agree with this. Playing as an origin character in DOS2 just felt like you were playing through somebody else's story - each of the companions had explicit goals apart from the main storyline, and you'd find out basic facts about them halfway through the game. The dialogue tags made me feel kind of obligated to pick whichever choice the character was 'supposed' to go with. And even if you didn't play as one, you'd get spoilers from the character selection screen at the start of the game.
