Opinion: Moving Party Change from Narshe to Figaro

One of the changes that I have wanted to implement for quite some time is to change the place where you change party members while you're searching for Terra and infiltrating the Empire. In the vanilla game, you have to trek all the way back to Arvis's house in Narshe to change. I would like to make Figaro Castle the central hub, and not Narshe.

(The one thing that would get in the way of this is the optional event where Sabin returns to Figaro castle. It would create some game-breaking situations if he went off to explore the castle, and then you switched party members. So, I will make that scene required. Following the Battle of Narshe, I will force only Edgar and Sabin into your party, and put in a line of dialogue about how they are going onto Figaro ahead of the others to make preparations. Your other party members won't show up until the Edgar/Sabin sequence has finished.)

Now, for the opinion question. Where in the castle does it make the most sense for your party members to be? The place with the most open space is the throne room, but does it make sense for your party to hang out there? The other options are the hallway where the chancellor is strolling around and the main entryway. Outdoors could potentially work, but it's a complex-enough map that I don't really want to add anything extra to it. So, what is your opinion?