I've lost all interest in this game as of part way through Act 2.
I play with mods and just to try to shake things up a bit, i.e. play for laughs, I thought I'd install 'Party Size Begone'. The mod seems to work just fine but it brought me into contact with the hirelings who I'd not previously paid much attention to.
Oh dear. Oh dear, oh dear. What a waste of space.

I'm just about to trawl Nexus mods for a 'recruit anyone' type of mod I spotted some time ago. Not that there are a lot of people left to recruit in Act 2.