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Quite a long time ago, Kawahara Reki gave an interview in which he said that he had plans after the first Aincrad arch to push Asuna into the background. She flew out of Japan after the traumatic events inside the game. He wanted to make Suguha his main romantic interest. During the ALFheim arc, Kirito and Suguha learned that they were not related and there were no obstacles to a relationship. And Suguha helped Kirito cope with his breakup with Asuna. But then the SAO fan base (which apparently consisted of radical fans of Asuna) got upset and Kawahara Reki decided not to remove Asuna and slightly changed the plot. After that, there was an Easter egg: Suguha is the only one whom Yui accepts on an equal footing with Asuna.

Memes aside, this update was pretty good, with a nice Asuna x Inoda scene for their fans, all meanwhile Sinon and Suguha stole the show by being the most entertaining part of the update.
My glorious incestual queen being the goat is just what I expected, but I did not expect to see Sinon climbing her way from being basically a non-character for most of the two games to being the most interesting character. (Excluding Kirigaya Suguha.)
I do think that, and this is not part of my Suguha agenda, that the update was lacking a bit of content. Content that could have easily been put in place with at least one scene of suguha taking "care" of Kirito in the hospital.