but you cant make them into anything you want thats preciseley the point.
The only thing you might not be able to customise is their race. And even that might be possible. Ability scores and class can certainly be changed to anything you want. Or you can use them off the peg. Because some people just want a hireling of the desired class without having to build them from scratch.
Exactly. i cannot customize either the race or the name, nor the sex for that matter.
Pretty sure you are jumping to conclusions there. You are staring from the perspective of "Larian want to make it bad". Try starting from "Larian want to make it good", because that is the only rational assumption to make - they want to make a profit, and they will make a bigger profit by making it good.
You have incomplete data, and you are filling the blanks with [DOOM].
youre still not engaging with what i said.
i come from the conclusion that larian made a choice, wether good or bad.
i said i disagree with the choice for these reasons.
Meanwhile youre not engaging, but rather saying i come form a faulty viewpoint.
No matter WHY larian chose to make Hirelings this way, my reasons for disliking it dont change.