I do find it odd that any suggestion of a system like this always has that "ick, I don't want to date a Lalafell" but then takes no consideration that players with Lalafell avatars would be engaging with such a system with identical expectations as players of other races. The game never writes Lalafell characters as the kid-coded squick monsters that some players view them as, and it *seems* that Japanese players do not have that attitude towards Lalafell and think they're just cute.

So yeah, there are issues here.

Personally my "realistic" hope is for some sort of affinity quest series that allows our WoL to have some unique one on one side quest series. They don't even need to be explicitly romantic in any way (which may be the better route so all allies can be included) and new characters or old side characters could get them as time goes on.

But, honestly, my imagination works just fine so I generally don't need any explicit romantic quest series in game and it always comes off like a potential story mine field no matter how it's cooked.