Honestly, if I could have had a larger active-party in bioware games I totally would have. But at least they never did a blanket wipe or dismissal of everyone you recruited to artificially reduce you to who is active (or at least in a single game, you could make an argument about the jump from ME1 to 2 and then 3, but they feel like separate games). Sure people could die because of my decisions, and there were ultimatum moments, but it wasn't ever DOS2 batch wipe levels, and individual character deaths and crisis add weight to the game compared to just deciding you can't have A,B,C,D, and E because you happened to choose to use F, G, and H at this arbitrary moment.