Cernd the druid was the exact same. Had a 9 in dex, 13 in strength, 13 in con. The difference in companion ability scores was kinda crazy in BG 1 and 2 also. There was a 28 point difference between the characters with the most and least stats. Think if it as they rolled for the companions stats instead of point buying. More random so your party isn't perfect, it's random, flawed people that you have to use to the best of your ability. There will also be the option to make your own custom party of awesomeness, either a full party or 3 man in case they don't let us leave custom companions in camp so that you can still do all the companion quests.
I mean, you rolled for stats in BG2. Most people just converted the roll into points, but strictly speaking if you kept the rolled stats you ended up with about what a companion would have. They didn't have to let you do that, it was an optional rule.
The difference here is that instead of it arising organically from the rules, this is, again, a bookkeeping mistake.
Check out the companions from BG1 and 2. They are purposefully not optimized.
She's just using the default stats distribution of the half-elf cleric in character creation...
True, but that just means the default array is also wrong.
