This game has problems, as any game has. But taste differs. For me it is the partly annoying party movement management (chain use, sometimes low reactivity for clicks on portraits) and the difficulty settings (Balanced is too easy for me, Tactician is sometimes very tedious, I don't know what to play) I don't like the most.
If you want bland boring stereotype companions like the person you cited, the game may not be for you. You can get bland boring hirelings instead of companions (I have a hireling fighter in my party, as one companion left because of what we did). Maybe that will help?
Otherwise I don't fully understand you. I'm also able to buy me any game I want and I don't want to waste my time with games I don't like. But you should try the games yourself. I bought for example Red Dead Redemption 2, Elden Ring and a lot of other games where I was curious while also reserved, and threw them from the harddrive soon, because they are garbage for me. Other games I tried surprised me very positively (Jagged Alliance 3 the last example). I would try BG3.
