Follower Inventory Issues

By now many of you have probably experienced the bug where your follower is determined to use their own base bow no matter what equipment you give them. In the past, I've "fixed" this issue by just taking my bow away and then giving it back. However, recently Lydia stopped responding even to that.

In response I used the console commands to remove her hunting bow from her inventory so she would be forced to use the legendary bow I gave her. My question is this: has anyone else done this and seen long term consequences? I took her into a combat to test and she drew her glass bow, but I'm worried this might later cause her to completely lose her ranged ability or something. Has anyone tried this?

Bonus Tip: You can target your followers and use the console command "openactorcontainer" and it will show you the trade interface just as if you asked them through dialogue. No more "sworn to your service" crap (if you're on PC).