I am inclined to be even more cynical and say their intent is ultimately to release only evil or neutral companions, with just one TOKEN good companion who, because he is high-profile, makes people feel (falsely) like there is balance between the evil and good sides.
Bottom line for me: if my choices are playing with an evil party or playing with a custom party (with no personality or say about anything), then I will do neither and simply not play at all, because both those options are equally intolerable and unacceptable to me.
I do hope you get companions that you like, but I can say for me that having neutral/evil companions is a refreshing and needed change. Most of the games I play with companions/followers assume that you will be good or neutralish good no matter how much you find it ridiculous in certain circumstances.
I completely get this, which is why I am very strictly NOT advocating for more good companions at the expense of the evil ones. Precisely because I am bitterly disappointed when what I want in this game is left out, I don't want to impose that same feeling on anyone else. I want a BG3 that the whole range of fans of the franchise can enjoy. And for me that means being able to play with a strictly good party.
Having said this, yet another reason why party size matters is that if I had a party of six rather than four, I would be willing to take along one unconventional (for me) companion in the mix, for example someone like Shadowheart, just to see how things play out with her character. I often do this with Viconia in my BG1/2 playthroughs. It is especially interesting to me to see what happens if I take an "evil" companions along with me, expose and subject them to a continuous stream of good actions and words, chastise them when they try to be evil even in the slightest, and see how they react (which is to say, see how "deep" that character's writing truly is). But with a party of only four, I will sadly have no choice but to play only with very standard and conventional (for me) party configurations.
