To put in my two cents, I really like Elora and think she's a great character. I realize she doesn't get a ton of screentime or deep development, but she's super charming and that is enough to win me over. Having Elora be your tutorial and also give the guidebook is magnitudes better than if the game just had a tutorial using text boxes or some other boring method. I'd love them to flesh her out a lot more in a hypothetical Spyro 4 if at all possible, they at least recognize she's a decently popular character having added her to CTR as a playable character.
Even if it was only briefly and in a dead game I'm glad we even got to play her at all. I had fun with the short time I played as her in CTR and hope they still consider her for any future games as well.