S.H.O.D.A.N.
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Because they are wasting valuable time and resource on this shit, instead of good writing, quests and encounters?
You might argue that writers spending less time on romances could do more with the rest of the script, but if they're not technically competent enough to write a simple romance sub plot without causing people to die of second hand embarrassment, what makes you think they're competent enough to write anything else at a good enough level?
As for the rest, most companies are not flexible enough to repurpose resources on the fly, and dev studios are especially inflexible in that regard. Not including a romance won't make for better encounters, because you can't magically convert writer man hours into game designer man hours, unless you want to restructure your outfit multiple times over the course of a project.