>>712857767
Clank isn't exactly a fair comparison, he's one of the best sidekicks in gaming, to the point that sidekick isn't the best descriptor and he's just a protagonist like Ratchet is.
Daxter is contentious because we know from his own game that he did fucking nothing to help break Jak out of prison for two years, once he does, the most Daxter does is shoot while Jak drives and grab hard to reach objects for Jak, everything else is situational like Jak getting too pissy to race and in cutscenes it's clear that Jak only keeps Daxter around because he's his friend, in fact Jak 2 actually shows multiple times that Jak doesn't need Daxter to help him with a lot of things and his sneeze even gets them found out by Praxis.
I suppose Daxter never lost faith in Jak, unlike Kiera, but Samos didn't either, so he's not unique in that respect, Daxter just kind of sucks whenever he isn't funny because that's all he really has going for him as a character.