i'll admit i never played through DOS2 as an origin character, i used my own, was there some massive difference to playing as an origin character? Did a whole side of the game I never saw open up or something? Was it a completely different experience?
well, not really. Did you ever play with companions, in general? Did you complete their specific side quests? Playing as one of them was basically the same thing, except for occasional use of a character-specific tag during some conversation (not always with a meaningful outcome, either; it was more flavor than anything) and experiencing that same side quest was written by a slightly different perspective. And without the character's voice acting.
Red Prince, Sebille, and Lohse get a tiny bit different when you play them, like you get to experience Red Prince's dream stuff, you can make Sebille not a murderhobo, and you can get more personal with Lohse's possession problems. Other than that... Honestly, nothing felt any different when I controlled a character instead of them being a companion, cause the things I mentioned were minor (other than Sebille really being way too trigger happy to fuck up Red Prince's questline...)
