I'm begging the team, please reverse this change with the next update!

When dismissing party members, story items (and characters they were dragging along in their inventory) will now properly transfer over to another party member.

Or at least make this something I can optionally toggle on/off in the game settings.

I now having to do so much more inventory management to give my companions back the items that were removed from them when dismissed. I actually just reported this as a bug, it didn't occur to me this was an intentional change. I see that people have been asking for the ability to access all companion inventories while in camp so that they don't loose items, which I'm guessing was a hard change to make and this was seen as a reasonable middle ground? But really this is not the way eek

Some equipable gear seems to be considered a 'story item' like the Disintegrating Nightwalker Boots I have given Astarion. Now every time I dismiss him his boots get yoinked off. If I don't remember to give them back and re-equip them the next time he's in my party he has to walk around town barefoot. Poor Astarion astariondisapprove