Sorry to bug but I thought you might know, I am now in the car with the lock-in choice you gave with Alex, is there a way to have say Alex and maybe Ava or Kayla dump Nicole, or does it look like we are stuck with her, because I don't care for Nicole.
Hey bud. Allow me to attempt to fully explain what this all entails to my knowledge so you know what is happening on the CriticalPath screen regarding your question (long-winded explanation so you get as full an answer as I can think of):
Nicole is the base LI in the VN to date...but, there is one layup (so far) that might have the MC giving her the boot in some future update. This requires being on the Alex pathing and choosing the RomMon subfork on Day4.
Now, this is the only layup that exists that potentially is a narrative for not having Nic in the future... but we don't know what the dev has planned. There may be other options as well in the future so I don't know about any of that (of course). The above Rom choices with Alex seem so important as to why I made a critical path choice screen for the final layup where I can't bring the Player back from the choice in the future from how I read the code, this is the very last point where the above choice selections really start making some impact:
So, if you are in the car and see this screen, selecting "RomanceMon" would be identical to the above (Alex's Bedroom) being originally made as "Leave Nicole". Again, I have zero knowledge of what will happen in the future though, so always make saves where appropriate.