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All the included romance options past 0 people means there was less time spent on developing some other part of the game I would also miss.

That's not how game development works.

Devs cut parts of games to focus on other parts all the time. Romance options are fanservice passed off as good writing and character building.
Humbug.

The cuttting off of part of the game is done is done before any development time is alloted, unless the project is managed like shit.

Most projects are managed like shit though. Cut content is a common thing in most every game precisely cus of that.

But 95% of cut content is cut before any programming is done, that's why it's usually just location names, entries with no data, models with no textures and the like... Cyberpunk 2077 is one of the special cases where they cut stuff out that was shown off months before. But for the most part something like a romance option doesn't take away time from other things, they are not the same team.

wut?

Better yet. How about their never be romance options in games at all? It's always ends up being some of the most cringe writing ever.