Party management is awful, and hirelings are an embarrassment. Want a cleric? Well, talk to someone, dismiss them, have to confirm that yes, you want to dismiss them, THEN you talk to Withers, and then your hireling is a generic cleric that will go back in the box when you dismiss them to switch to another companion.
Who thought that was a good system in any way? If you wanted to force people to use the origins, just remove hirelings entirely.
There's SO much good with this game, I can't stop playing it, but some of the decisions are head scratching.
