While it might be right, that the Cindy situation will be resolved/making drama in the next chapter, it is also clear that if you kept away from Cindy (her and Emma are the girls I dislike the most), your Ian will not be in trouble with Lena/Alison/Holly/etc. and that is what counts most.That issue will still be present in-game whether you indulge or not as it is a complete path/s in itself and will take priority over further IanxLena story progression so in the end EK still has to do it. Now how EK handles IanxLena correlated to IanxCindy will be interesting to see as game is near end(5 chapters to go) so "consequences phase" should be officially started from CH12 or CH13.
That EK must still make a "Cindy trouble" path is clear.