Maybe it would help for a player to be able to designate a character who will be prioritized for cutscenes? That way each person’s “face” can go to the front. That may be complicated to implement?
Alternatively (and, for me, preferentially), the character who initiates dialogue would be the character who carries the dialogue through. Not sure what to do about cases like Auntie (I don't think I've met Flint yet), but to me it makes some sense that she'd try to strike a deal with the person who's on the verge of ending it.
However, I'm getting the sense that any fix is likely to be complicated, and some of us are going to be left out in the cold.
