In the long line of effort to optimize FPS as well as generally clean up the amount of visual items on the screen (players, loot, monsters, spell visuals, etc) why not allow a “Companion Visual On/Off” feature.
I’ll be honest, I don’t care much to watch people’s companions on the screen. In a player versus environment (PVE) situation, it may help clear some congestion on the screen for players. Obviously this can be a downside in player versus player (PVP) situations but that would be on the player in using this feature.
Far as player/companion skills that are used (Mount for instance), the companion should be rendered then. Otherwise if select skills that have player/companion interaction are not used, the companion is not shown.
Maybe asking a bit much but it would be an awfully nice feature. <3