The only companions that absolutely need respecced when you start the game (especially on hard or unfair) are Amiri and Valerie. Because their stats are completely fucked and Valerie's Tower Shield build is just objectively worse than a vanilla fighter taking various shield feats. Other companions like Nok-Nok and such are fine as is. I don't like respeccing the companions and going against their character theme at all though. Really takes me out of the journey!
Still salty I lost Harrim and the inquisitor to a bug though despite all the bugfixes they did.
Still salty I lost Harrim and the inquisitor to a bug though despite all the bugfixes they did.