That is all well and good but, why should they be weaker than they were in SoR ? If they realized they messed up with the buff to them why not just bring them back to the way they were prior to KotFE ?
I'm personally not asking for a revert to 4.0.0 levels of companion power. But anytime a developer has to nerf, or buff even, something by ~70% means you really messed up in your design.