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Considering how blatantly Lisa is designed as the MAIN GIRL, we're almost lucky to have gotten the three alternative options as anything other than side relationships, never mind the actual side girls.
I think the main reason why people are annoyed isn't because they don't like the side girls endings, as much as because it seems like they're all deliberate non-endings. Emma leaves. Rosa and Cath deliberately break it off. Nicole really doesn't seem interested in an actual relationship, etc.
For someone who has pursued Emma to the exclusion of other options, her ending is essentially a door being closed in your face as she heads off to college. Giving even a single simple choice or a bit of extra dialogue (implying the two of you might be willing to try and get back together/have a long-distance relationship) would probably make those people very happy. In the same vein, someone focused on Cath/Rosa as the ideal scenario is likely going to be disappointed when it essentially ends with "That was awesome. AND WE WILL NEVER DO THIS AGAIN." Realistically, if you've kept your relationship with Selina relatively casual, there really isn't a reason why you shouldn't be able to maintain a relationship with Cath, Rosa, or both. The ending isn't unsatisfying as much as it feels a bit half-assed (and it doesn't need to be - a slight reinterpretation of a few flags that already exist in-game and a bit of slightly different extra dialogue at the end and you can easily imply future liasons).
Obviously, the game is ending, so NONE of these relationships (main or otherwise) are going to continue on - and in a brutally realistic game, most of them would probably end within a year (anything relationship than Lisa is going to suffer from you being on the road as a band, and a Lisa relationship has a high probability of falling apart as the pressures and stresses of being a band eventually drive you apart, like nearly every other in-band relationship in history, and like the Naked Park girls tell you when you talk to them). But there's no real reason why all possible side relationships need to end with a definitive "and now it's over" ending. I'm assuming all the main girl relationships are going to involve epilogues where it's implied you're looking forward to a bright future together - there's no reason side relationship endings couldn't have been presented in the same sort of way.
And this isn't even really a personal complaint on my part - I prefer most of the main girls over the side LIs. But I can see why other people might be annoyed. Especially if they've screwed up one or more main relationships, or were never really interested in any of the main girls.
