I think this is one reason for the success of BG3: all the companions are obviously flawed,
My main argument was that BG3 has a lot more good elements than nothing but the companions, as it was claimed in this thread by others.
I am certain that some players indeed are exclusively attracted to the companions, but I dont think thats even a sizeable part of the gamers who play the game, let alone the majority or anything like that.
And dont fool yourself that people you meet in forums are representative for the people who play a game. For example steam statistics show that only like 3 percent have finished the game on ironman mode. The people who actually bother to read and write in the forum of this game have probably a much higher rate than that.
(Personally I'm not really interested in the ironman mode ... maybe one day, I dont know, but so far I'm happy to play on hard)
