Hi,
in my opinion baldurs gate was always about playing your own character. Now it seems like Larian wants to stick to their previous divinity origin system, which let's you play also as one of the starter companions.
While I don't like the current companions, because they're all over the top special and not a single one is acting like anything bad happend before or even like normal people, I also think that the origin system is not fitting to the universe, the game or baldurs gate.
Why should Larian waste resources on that?