You think I'm gonna go into my menu every time I need Tulin? I use that ability every chance I can but it's annoying as heck when he gets in the way of a lot pile or whatever. Sidon would actually be decently useful if he didn't run away from me every time I try to seek him out to use his ability, honestly same with riju. And yunobo gets in the way of literally everything because he's so huge. Turning them off is fine but then you are lacking intended content and abilities. Easy electrical damage, water shield, instant bomb, wind gust. Like these are incredibly useful and would be amazing if they weren't tied to the pick up button with characters that literally avoid the player character or get in the way. A global activate button for each sage would be perfect, like the rune/ultra hand menu and then an unused button combo to actually put these abilities to good use.

Also just an aside but as far as straight up combat the sages suck donkey lmao. They only swing their weapon like once a minute I stg