Therefore argument about resources works only if you are deciding "another companion Y/N" ... Once you pick yes. You spend exactly the same amount of resources to anyone ...
Ah, so you just not making any goddamn sense, responding to isolated out of context sentence but not the point that is being made. Question isn't "another companion Y/N" but "how many companions can there be, and how they can provide different narrative/gameplay experience". And yes I would be surprised if they went for another elf druid companio before "Jimmy the Sorcerer" or other missing archetype like monk. I might be wrong, but that's my take.