Jaal the Mandatory Squadmate

Jaal does need a buff compared to his counterparts, but his dialogue especially with Drak is great

If you have Jaal with you he can recruit Angara into the resistance on several planets, giving you more help in the final mission.

I like him, but he's got nothing banter-wise on Cora-Vetra or Drack-Peebs. Sorry Jaal.

Jaal = Javik .

If you didn't take Javik for some missions, Thessia for example, you lost A LOT stuff.
If you will not take Jaal for EVERY mission connected to Angara, you lost even more.

Agree, but I took him on my 1-st PT for every Angara planet.
He got all the time something to say !

But we do, though. You can't reject anyone. You can't kick anyone out.

Jaal was annoying, probably more annoying than Liam.

I resent having to take a squadmate with me to get more information tbh, it should be more evenly spread so that I can take whoever I like.  It would be okay if it was one mission, like Javic on Thessia, but Jaal has unique stuff for entire planets.
Having him talk on comms helped, but as the game went on I got more and more annoyed by him and rarely picked him. I know I've lost out on info on Meridian by doing that, so next time I guess I'll have to pretend Ryder is best buds with him and try not to roll my eyes too much as he blathers on about how awesome the angara are.

I felt like this only happened with Jaal, for the rest it was purely personal stories that needed them there (which is mandatory anyway). I think I preferred the way DA:I handled it. If I happen to have Cass with me for example, she can use her authority to scare the shit outta someone and make them do what we want. If she's not there I'll find another way, so it's a neat way of bringing the crew into the decisions and making it more of a team effort, but never mandatory.

I don't mind if it's once, but with Jaal it seems to be a couple of main missions, his loyalty mission, and all of Havarl and Voeld. 

Jaal is Javik to me. I take him everywhere! His comments (especially on Eos) are always interesting, and when I meet other Angara (like on Elaaden) he has extra dialogue that won't activate if he's not in my squad.

Also if you don't take him to Voeld and Havarl, you can talk to him there (he's with the lady Scientist on Havarl and at the Resistance base on Voled) and learn more about the planets, and during his LM on Eos, he will talk over the comm and help you if you take other squadmates like I do.

Agreed. I miss the special companion​ dialogue options. Varric fast talking people was my personal favorite. Obviously there will be missions, like Thessia, or DA:I in the Fade, where some companions have more to say than the others. But that kind of dialogue should be spread out amongst all the companions, not bottled into one like Jaal or Javik.

Hopefully.