How is it not drama for the sake of it, especially with the timing when you have to choose ?
You simply get no choice for an Elena route without being on a Layla path, there is no apparent reason for it.
The MC finds her cute, there was the bar scene and kiss early on, they get along well, spend time together etc and the problem isn't Elena not being interested or rejecting the MC advances for whatever reasons, but that she is for some reason the only LI the MC (player) can't make any advances on (or even showing interest in her), just because.