Idk I did not hate it in DOS2 (was a bit surprised tho). The other BG games had so many that you could find all over the world that I went for the ones I wanted and left the rest to their faith. I never changed the party ones I had the companions I wanted.
Only games I ever changed party was dragon age and that was mostly for story reasons.
However, I did not like the 'hiring' of companions in DOS2. Those were really boring.
I would like the option of changing companions tho or finding some new ones after act 1. Hopefully ones you don't have to 'hire' like in DOS2.
