An easy solution for this would to be able to customize our companions is if they just used the equipment slots per companion as a costume page. Since stats do not matter to the companions anymore, only their affection towards the player, it should take little effort to grant the player a Head, Chest, Hand, Legs, Feet, and Wrist slot in addition to the weapon slot already there. Then we can customize our companions as we like and not have 27 Lana twins running through the zones as we do now.