Trying to get the discussion a bit closer to the original topic: looking at the past work from Larian I think it is interesting that they felt it was more critical to get the evil/neutral companions right, when I would personally expect them to have more issues with good companions. Because in D:OS 2 all characters were somewhat edgy and at least not the brightest shade of gray. I think it would be in their interest to introduce them a bit earlier, especially if one of the good companions is Minsc who is a decent character, but his traits will always have him as the very naive kind of good.
