I can't stand Oliver and I absolutely despise that he is a forced character now. It's honestly such a shit change that it's killed all my desire to bother playing again and this was one of my top three favorite NTS games. I literally closed the game and stopped playing as soon as he was forced back again.
If you want somebody else besides Nathan then introduce new characters, don't force characters who people have specifically said they dislike and don't want anything to do with them.
The FemMC could've progressed with Hugo, Marcel, a new bull, randoms, literally anybody else, instead we have agency taken away from us and have to deal with a dickhead and an asshole. Hell at this rate we'll end up with Mike back in the picture too because I rate him on the same level as Oliver.
If people miss content because they don't want Oliver than that's their choice and a completely valid one.