Making the Yrliet romance female-only wouldn't solve the issue, because women don't want their partner to throw up in their mouth a little bit when they think of holding their hand, and tell you as much.
Yrliet's romance plays the romance theme of the game, and it also completes the steam achievement for both starting and finishing a romance, so it's meant to be a romance, not platonic, no matter what someone says offhand on social media.
What would have solved the problems with Yrliet's content is two things:
1. She stops throwing up in her mouth when she thinks of holding your hand. I'm not even talking about sex and cuddling or anything, just stop writing scenes where she calls you disgusting as the romance goes on.
2. Call it a friendship. She no longer tells you to break things off with the other women or men. She enjoys meditating with you, and there is absolutely zero jealousy on her part. It no longer plays the game's romance theme and no longer completes the steam achievement. It is explicitly a friendship and she treats it as such and the game mechanically treats it as such.
You can have a completely non-sexual romance, that isn't the issue. In a non-sexual romance you would still want your partner to not constantly insult you and your race.
You can also have an intimate friendship. Meditating together, exploring each other's inner worlds, and this style of close bond does not require a romantic lean to it. But if that's the case, don't have her make you break things off with other romance options.
That's the main two problems with Yrliet's content and how to fix them. You don't actually have to change much, it wouldn't be hard to just change one or both of these specific aspects. We can stop going over this topic every thread.
