>>720078810

Sega wants Amy to be in the main group because it's the current year(tm) and you need a token female on the roster.

Problem: Amy's relevance in previous games up to Lost World hinged on her forcing herself into the plot due to her Sonic boner, but that aspect of her character was flushed away in the beginning of the 2010s, so all she can do now is just spout platitudes about positivity and whatnot. They tried grafting "mysticism" onto her character with the fortune cards but it hasn't amounted to anything interesting yet.