I more mean, they are like companions, but you can select the race, gender, etc like a real Jedi would either choose a padawan, or the Seer might find one and encourage the Jedi to take that select padawan. All of this would change gameplay at all, you would only have the one "companion" with you, but I would rather have a young padawan which levels up with me. Its not giving an advantage to Jedi/Sith at all, its just giving more of an option to choose to train one.