You seem to remember Leliana's song a bit differently from me. Granted I haven't really played any RPG for the last 3 years because of education reasons.
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As for Garrus and Shepard, you can easily incorporate one or two more characters in that scene while keeping almost everything the same. I should maybe have stated that when I wrote it.
Keep in mind these were only indented for brainstorming, I am not necessarily saying that Larian should copy them. I just wrote what I could think of in the moment( as said before it has been a long time since I played DA:O and other classics.)
Your memories of Leliana’s song are correct - in case of Garrus I would still argue that the scene is focused on Garrus/Shepard buddy-cops relationship, so I think making it a group activity would just weaken the message. However, don’t take my nitpicking on small points you made, as a disagreement to the overall message.
Now thinking back on the game, it is disappointing that with smaller roster of characters, they didn’t become more intertwined. There was just a lack of polish after act1, that disconnected me from companions as characters. Just a bit too clear, and clinical content drops, with no spontaneous interactions. At the same time I struggle to come up with what I would like to see changed. I just think companions are too gimmicky to serve as compelling characters for a long journey. I don’t see them as enough of a well rounded characters to have much of an opinion outside their own drama. Larian did make an effort for them to comment on every major event in camp, but it falls flat as they don’t really have much of anything to say, outside stating “thing X just happened, and I got content for it”.
