Robert already is pretty much just copy and paste of scenes with another guys (Ian or Mike) so i don't think getting rid of him would speed things up to any noticeable degree. Tbh, aside from possible development with Stan there isn't anything at this stage i can think of that could be easily discarded... and one or two routes out of dozen isn't going to shorten the development time much, so i don't feel it's even worth it.She could close Robert off for Lena if she wanted to and just keep him around for the occasional still image with Holly, that doesn't necessarily take a ton of development time.