Let Me Play as an NPC?

[Lukha]

If you mean the side-stories outside MSQ,SE has already added them on Lodestone.
The tale of dragon-something about Aymaric and Estinien’s past,well I didn’t read them though.

But wouldn't it be nice to actually get to play through those events, with pretty cutscenes and maybe even (probably not, but a cat can hope) voice acting? As the game is now, locked into the WoL's PoV, nothing like that will ever be possible.

Youi mean kill the freedom cause then it'll cause a bigger overlap that wasn't there before. Maybe I'm just not seeing it tho, but yeah I don't see the benefits to doing that. I want MORE WOL actions instead of being an NPC doing shit.. make/let ME as the WOL/main character do more things ingame please... not less. D:

The best example I can think of where the game could benefit from it is (HW MSQ spoiler)

when Aymeric goes to confront his father, and you take one path through the vault while your NPC friends go to rescue him. I realize that this was done mainly to avoid similar issues to 2.0 dungeons with a lot of cutscenes, but The whole trip through The Vault felt really empty and disjointed to me, because you missed a bunch of events that really needed to be shown for the sake of good storytelling.

There's also instances like (SB MSQ spoiler)

Thancred sneaking in to the Garlean base to look for Krille, and whatever Estinien's been doing this whole time that led him to save our bacon from being blasted extra-crispy, which could have been very interesting sequences to play through, but instead had to be confined to very brief side scenes.

I understand wanting to be the main character and do everything you possibly can, but the WoL cannot physically be everywhere at once, and there are some places they cannot reasonably be or access at all, and it would benefit the storytelling to have more options to get around that.