Do you want to risk this person's life in order to have an advantage in a given situation? Are they well armed and supplied to reduce the risk? Once in combat, no longer is it the same thing over and over. Suddenly taking someone with you isn't a given, it's a trade off. What does this give us? Rather than the immortal babysitters making all combat situations play out the same way, it adds consequence to the game, which lead to emergent situations and interesting player choices. Your companions should have the intelligence to run or hide when they are low on health, as they did in fallout 1 in 1997.
At this point in 2015, this should no longer be an issue. This should have only been the case to make up for bad AI which was prone to getting itself killed. Combat becomes an infinitely repeatable pattern of send your companions in to soak up enemy fire while you kill everything and revive their corpses after combat. If companions are essential, it turns them into baby sitters for the player. I am disappointed no one at Bethesda seems to have the common sense to realize this since it seems like such a simple concept for most of the modding community at least. Having essential companions simplifies and homogenizes the gameplay in a way that while perhaps okay for some, will turn a lot of others off of it.
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