Why are NPC parties so bad?

[MsMisato]

The problem is that squadrons require getting your Grand Company rank up enough to unlock them, plus farming the weekly challenge log until it decides to give you more recruits. They'd have to redo that entire process. Evidently they just decided that a handful of set NPCs was easier to manage.

There's also the story problem that, at least in HW, the Grand Companies can't openly support the Scions for a while because of the whole mess in Ul'dah.

i always understood that the squadron was like an adventurer militia for the grand company thats why it was established because you never really have anyone from the GC on your team. just plain adventurer npcs. . But I get what you are saying about the the GC not being able to support the scions.

I just think the mastery system for the squadron could have been been applied to the trust system if anything in that case.