3rd Retainer by Default, please?

[Kosmos992k]

Which would matter if ventures weren't utterly trivial to acquire.

But while you are entitled to your own opinion, you are not entitled to your own facts. And the fact is that a person with four retainers can conjure into existence items of high value at twice the speed as a person with two.

That 'conjuring' of high value items is, as far as I can remember, dependent on using ventures and being smiled upon by the RNG...hardly an automatic thing eh?

To echo your words...But while you are entitled to your own opinion, you are not entitled to your own facts. And the fact is that additional retainers do not in any way alter your abilities in the game, nor do retainers create anything on their own, they require the player to do something.