The life of a survivor is lonely, and once NPCs are improved to the point where they aren’t useless walking meatsacks of free loot we’ll want some reliable companions to kill zombies with, watch our backs while we snooze in the middle of the road, and cook our me- GOD DAMN IT HENRY I SAID I WANTED MY EGGS SUNNY-SIDE UP!
My point is, once we have a loyal NPC companion we should be able to teach them our tricks of the trade. Perhaps Urist Mctwoleftfeet cannot avoid getting his face bit off to save his life, teach him a bit about dodging! Or Henry Mccan’tcookmyfuckingeggsright is a horrible cook, teach him how to work some tasty magic or so help you you’ll show him the business end of a frying pan!
But yeah, that’s the jist of it. Let us teach our useless meatsacks helpful companions some mad skills.