I don’t see what’s wrong with me disregarding or breaking FR canon if that’s how I want to play the game. It has no impact on anybody else’s game and there is no mechanical advantage to it, so if you ignore this feature you miss out on nothing.
It's not about what you do. After all, you can mod the game to be unrecognizeable and nobody will care.
It's about Larian actively supporting choices that break the integrity of characters. This is not like DOS2, where classes are just loose collections of starting skills and say little about the characters you assign them, and where characters' stories did not require specific abilities in almost all cases.
What’s wrong with Larian supporting choices that breaks the integrity of the characters?
Because it requires development time that could have been used for something that keeps and enhances the integrity of the characters instead. It also sets a bad example of what is important in BG3/RPGs and what not.
It probably did not take any extra development time. They were going to give us the ability to respec our player characters and hirelings. If anything, excluding companions from this system would have taken slightly more development time (by a few minutes of coding) than just making the system universal to all characters.
