First of all you said its logical to get rid of eric as quick, there i wanted to make it its not so logical atleast for some players thats point about reasonable (atleast in my mother language(which is not english) we would say it like that ).I didn't get it right about 'reasonable' but you guys have been arguing about Eric for a long time. I had given the idea to create Eric as a sinic villain character and Max to start his paranoia about him. I'm not a programmer and I don't make model art content, but I would create a more interesting story for all the characters. In my opinion, it was for the developer to create his own story instead of copying much of the initial content, I mean, to put his own dialogues and his way of telling the story. I played the versions of the game and saw that Eric has the same personality as the previous game, most of them do, so soon we will see that people will complain that Ann is cold to her childrens and etc. In my opinion, I would like to see Eric's content but at the same time not, as it will take time and I don't want to go through the same grind as before.
Than i think that dev. done good job by making paths like this, enemy and friend path and how much i have read from what aleksey said friend path will have many good things for those who want to watch and doublebang.
And there is enemy path for those who want to get rid of eric.
So there is no need to get in fight for anything, cuz everyone gets what thay want (except for those who want gay content).
Now if someone want Eric POV you will have to wait for someone to make game, or even mod cuz chance for Dev to make DLC from Eric perspective is low chance.