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The reason they shoehorned some stuff is because Deen realized quickly it's basically impossible to adapt a single 30 hour route from a 100h game and keep a coherent anime narrative.
They decided to give some semblance of development to every character, I can't deny they fell short for much of it but at least Deen's anime feels like a complete story.
Meanwhile in Ufotable's HF everyone who isn't shirou and wormwhore has 10 lines at most, they aren't even character just story props. Obviously I get they woudn't readapt things they've already done before but it makes the movie trilogy feels like a dogshit addon to the VN and at this point, you're better off watching the fights on youtube, genuinely it is how they intended it to be.