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I recently had two of my six players decide to change characters in between our third and fourth sessions of our Pathfinder game. In their case, it was because their precious classes weren't matching up with their expectations.
I told them it was fine and we could just handwave it and pretend their new characters were there the whole time. But one of the players took it upon themselves to write a really basic—but also very believable—excuse for the old character leaving and the new one joining.
We're all in this to have fun, so as long as they aren't constantly shifting around to the point it becomes distracting or difficult for other players' characters to form meaningful relationships, I'm more than happy to let a player change up their character if they aren't enjoying it any more. Session 3 is early enough that I'm happy just handwaving it, but if a player wants to write an explanation that's always better.