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Love your optimism, i honestly do.
If it works for you to look at it that way, i definitely won’t blame you.
But for me it doesn’t.
That’s not because they couldn’t, it’s simply not implemented to talk to them or have them commenting in an appropriate way.
In Dragon age 3 the characters in your party comment on things and talk to each other.
If a trauma would be an excuse for the poor AI, shouldn’t they sit in the corner crying or lose their minds berzerker style when enemies approach?
Besides their bad AI there is no indication for a trauma.
If they are so traumatized how is the barkeep able to talk?
And we didn’t even talk about crafters yet.
How is such a traumatized individual able to craft high quality gear/food/potions what requires a lot of precision and common sense? 
I appreciate your way to look at it, but i still stand by that point. The AI is just awful in my opinion, and got even worse lately.