I just wanted to say, like everything DW is doing recently, this servitors are not like the old ones, who needed constant/frequent instruction to start off.
They are strong and act like conscious intelligent fields.
To continue your analogy (this is just an analogy folks…don’t take this literally please), these servitors are more like cats than dogs …meaning, they don’t need constant attention and “coaching” to do their thing.
They already have “active” skills (see active skill list) which they start working on as soon as they are created and would keep them near constantly busy. So they aren’t going to be “bored” if you never/rarely talked to them or go weeks without specific instructions.
If you are worried, simply tell them to make one of the passive skills more active under certain conditions, or to “go learn everything about X” when they are not actively needed (just like the old servitors).
So don’t think of them as pets… Unless you think of them as fully grown, conscious, super intelligent “pets” that have their own stuff to do when you’re not around or busy. You know…like a human friend. And not the needy ones.