I'm (not really) playing patch 6 with a party of six characters once again, using the savegame hack that allows for it.
Honestly, even giving up on the idea of a better control scheme (because Larian apparently really, really loves this garbage chain-system) what's sorely missing at this point it's even just a rudimentary way to control the party formation.
By default without one the characters dispose in a fairly impractical "wide triangle" formation.
EDIT: this is what I mean with "wide triangular formation:
![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/hUJAmwb.jpg)