Anyway, I'm getting the impression that we are steering away from the the initial premise and devolving into a parallel topic.
The two posts quoted in the OP weren't exactly aimed at debating if people like or not fully voiced characters.
Quite the contrary, the point was how you could tweak the current solution (a mostly-silent main character) to feel less markedly awkward... Which is definitely how it feels now.
Yeah, It's my fault for mentioning it in the first line I guess.
