All the Other Companions dosent Have this Problem..
Becouse they were Write as Companions..
Shadow, Astarion, Lae'zel, Minthi.. all of then are Ok and work super well as companions..
It's funny that you wrote that Laezel was ok as a companion. I've found Laezel was by far the worst when playing a githyanki. My character was sidelined by her in the gith questline, and even the ending felt like tacked onto her story. It just shows that with different characters the experiences can be very different.
You are however wrong on the custom characters, only Tav was available to play as in EA, you could not play as origins. So the game had this option from the start, only DU is the late addition.
