I don't disagree with you, Gray Ghost, except perhaps in the vehemence of my opinion and my optimism that what we have in EA is provisional and that Larian will have taken on board feedback like this and improved the full release experience.
But it strikes me that we've now drifted quite a bit from the initial question about whether or not the NPCs are generally decent people into the quality of companion writing. Which is one that's also been well rehearsed before.
I know I'm as guilty as anyone, but I'd suggest any further discussion on this point resurrects one of the threads specifically talking about that, or perhaps starts a new thread on that topic given when I tried to look for an old one I found chat about our opinions of the companions scattered here there and everywhere.
