Please make it so that compansions come in melee gear only as standard.

Remove their ranged weapons unless the player explicitly gives them a ranged weapons.

The companion AI is hugely [censored]. 1m between the companion and an attacker and the dumb [censored] still are plinking away in their bows AND(!!) missing!

I wish you could do something similar to Fallout with the commands. Setup the companions ranges and combat tactics. Would love to see this expanded.

I haven't seen this. My companion seems to reliably switch to melee when in close combat.

I would like more control options for them though.

Maybe you didn't. But I'm sure a lot of other people simply don't want companions going ranged unless said companions have been given a ranged weapon! Should be a very easy mod to make, imo.

This. While I only have Lydia right now, she seems to very effectively swap between bow and sword. Now if only I could get her to last more than 5 seconds in a fight before she falls over until the fight ends....

Well, I don't know what Lydia is like, but I just checked the follower I've got following me right now instead of Lydia, Faendel, and his health is only at 92, whereas mine is at 130. You might open up the console, click on Lyida and do ModAV health somenumber you think is reasonable. You can check it first with GetAv Health and then decide. I added 40 to him to get him up with me. I assume he'll level with me, but maybe they don't? I'll check him again later on. I've only just picked him up and we've only gone through one fight together and he was fine so I haven't gotten a chance to see how puny he will be.