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>Because he doesn't care and has nowhere else to go
He was trying to figure out who he was and what his purpose was at the start. They gave him some purpose but they could have very easily had him straying off the beaten path to continue to question if it's what he truly should be doing or something more leading to finding out he was being used by Xemnas for something and that everyone was lying to him for their own gains. Maybe even show some of the Organization members attacking people to facilitate Heartless. Hell, make him interested in the worlds he is visiting because he's Sora's Nobody just from the direction of meeting other people than the Organization and have him interacting with the regular people which pisses Xemnas off since it ruins his cherade.
>we were not going to get a huge emotional connection or development
Which is fine, the point is that they'd talk about certain things or reveal certain aspects of themselves without realizing it. Maybe have Larxene dote on Roxas a bit, have Roxas talk to Zexion for a few seconds and be turned away due to his introverted nature, have Lexaeus and Xaldin helping Roxas learn how to defend the Organization or something, etc. Just something.
>Roxas doesn't really give a shit about any of this.
The point would be that Xemnas and the rest of the crew would be restricting Roxas from seeing or talking to Axel, restricting him from actually getting to know people from the worlds he visits, refusing to answer his questions, and lying to his face about why he is doing things ultimately leading to him being attacked by Saix since he's a dog without a leash and Roxas fighting back.
>They literally live in different worlds
Yet they're still outright spoken of as being friends with him and MoM talks about them. In an ideal world it would be Roxas/Namine/Axel as the trio because it actually makes sense based on how everything was structured prior to Xion. Axel was even sympathetic towards her in CoM.