Keeping the Mottled Toad and the Flop-eared Fatty in the party for their bickering is entertainment gold.
And the two Prom Queen candidates are either very strong - or simply easy to use by 5ed challenged players like me.
Based on who is most fun in the party with great comments and voice barks.
Oh, yes! I understand this very well. See, I played BG1/2 in two language versions.
Some of the Companions I never used - regardless of how useful/interesting plotwise they were - because I found their voices/accents insufferable. And then suddenly they became palatable and playable when I installed the English version (worked the other way too, a few had English VA which turned them into "lolnope" material).