Unfortunately, there’s not really a positive change to revert at the moment. I have personally seen three different cases where a different party member was selected for cutscenes. Two of those cases were just after combat, so I could see the person I was controlling last in combat getting the scene. However, one scene was meeting Auntie Ethel at the edge of the forest, no combat involved there, just the person closest to them got selected.
I 've had the same happening to me in a few instances, so for me the change does not really work either. In one instance the game even chose some random person who was not closest (Act 1, talking to pack leader Flint).
I remember when they put in the little crown in the character pictures to show who the group leader was. First I thought it was a change so you could designate a face, but unfortunately this was not it. I wish you could just choose who the face of the group, but I guess the engine does not support that.
