thanks to the story, you dont really want to pass up any help you can get.
So far, so good.
I suppose we disagree here, I don't think that's necessarily a good thing, I think you SHOULD have less reason to have these people tag along with you, it should come down to personal choice, which differs from person to person as seen in comments above, instead, I feel like even if you don't like certain characters, you're still suggested to have them tag along, I don't mind a group with characters that aren't the same alignment, but there's some characters I don't really like on a personal level, but because of the narrative, I don't feel like getting rid of them is too sensible.