Making scenes linear isn't reworking anything, it's just not adding tiles or anything. I fail to see how the hub could be absolutely integral to the character. Even if it somehow was, just add Einen and then add the hub at a later point. It's not like she has to ship feature complete. Just a crying shame we missed out on a companion with 150 pages of work done already compared to barebones shit like Agni, Viv, Atugia, and Quin.
Though if I'm being honest, I'm against any hubs centered around a character. We all know how that turned out with Kiyoko and Etheryn.
Subtracting a whole visitable area from a companion's story is not at all a small task. Think about how much about Arona you'd have to change if you deleted the camp from the game.
Also, as I pointed out before, William has a full time job writing for TiTs already. A job he has slipped way behind on at various times and for various reasons. Stuff that was started literally years ago is still in the works.
The idea of adding a companion to his work load and expecting positive results to somehow appear would be insanity.
Not to mention there's a easy difference between Einen and those other characters; those other authors all work for this project. The reason there's less done on their companions is because they're working/have been working on other areas of this game, mostly on stuff that was tasked to them by Savin.
Besides Bubbles, I mean. I really don't know what he does.
