To each their own. Just means more Faendal for me. And my game must have a different version of Faendal from others because he can keep up with my dragonborn without a problem. But *shrugs* my characters have a thing for Bosmers and he's the only available Bomser follower.
I love Faendal too. He's a great follower and love his dialogue. My whole post was about the RP on the whole thing. Playing a straight forward Stormcloak (xenophobic, non-nord hating, dumb, violent type), I was looking for a justification to keep him, but, since he's not a nord and, worse yet, he's an elf, I don't think I can continue to use him. I'll have to go for some Nord that can do archery. I don't even think he'd go for Aela since he'd view her as a slut due to her outfit and warpaint. He'll probably end up with Mjoll (I know she's not an archer), Uthgerd (again, not an archer, but certainly butch enough for him) or have to go for a guy, which really isn't his style. He's looking for a companion he can make a partner of.
I guess his parameters would be a conservative, female nord who is good at archery. I don't think any of them exist in SR. It's almost as frustrating as not being able to find a Khajit to marry my Khajit and being forced as a non-nord or even a non-human to adopt nord children or go without completely.