if i may add, the chain system also make it more inconvenient and annoying if you were have more party characters (via a mod?). of course i would like to have an official method of playing the game with 6 party characters only if larian permits it.
For what is worth this was already said several times since the first pages (but it doesn't hurt repeating at this point, since no one is going through 40 pages or more of reiteration of the same arguments).
Honestly right now between the group/ungroup shortcut and the group stealth toggle is not even AS BAD as it used to be. Still FAR from ideal, though. But it feels more and more we are on the losing side of history here.
which begs a question why didn't larian just allow the click and drag selection of the party members for players that uses the keyboard and mouse? is there a specific reason why they need to have this chain system for KBM?