The fact that 'fixed' appearance hirelings is a thing is a crying shame. It makes zero sense to NOT be able to customise them. I like playing as a variety of races, Halfings (still waiting on someone making a Ghostwise Halfling mod), Dwarves, Dragonborn etcetera etcetera but with all 'main' companions being Human, Elf, Half Elf or Tiefling and a relatively limited selection of the fixed Hirelings, it's impossible to assemble say, a party of Dwarves or have a pair of Dragonborn (or whatever combination you might wish for). It also leads onto the 'issue' of playing a short race and only having 'tall' love interests... but that's a whole other rabbit hole that I've read several complaints about already. I'm hoping Larian themselves make moves to resolve this but I'm thinking it'll probably be down to mods to get a party that we REALLY want.