I always wonder what happened to my path companion after the Calamity.

They were incredibly underutilized in version 1, I was really hoping they would be more present in ARR. However I wouldn't want them to be the same as trusts. Trusts in xi make parties a thing of the past and the game even less social and what is the point of playing an mmo if you are just going to play solo anyway. May as well play something like Skyrim.