P.S. Conversely, I DO think that the camp chest management is in dire need of a massive overhaul and that swapping equipment on your companions should be streamlined a lot to not involved "sending away" and "regrouping" characters left and right.
It's just that food isn't even remotely the most relevant reason for it.
Hmm, good point. Dragon Age already figured this out about 15 years ago by letting you access your entire party's stats and equipment while in camp, without having to wrestle with exactly who was in your party, because the game basically treated everyone as being in your party while at camp for the purposes of being able to move gear around.
Somehow DA2 forgot about that. For reasons.
