Im a little woried about what you told us about companion conversations ... It seems like all their stories was just speeded up. :-/ In my opinion, they were allready quite fast. :-/
It wasn't that they were speeded up, but that the way their triggers worked and where they happened had clearly been changed. That's the thing I found encouraging.
They certainly also happened way too fast in my playthrough and I'm taking that as a bug related to the fact that the new approach still hasn't been fully polished. Hopefully that will be fixed before you folks actually see the full release.
"You may call it 'nonsense' if you like, but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!"
