And when I first played I found Anomen as the only male romance option hugely disappointing.
People keep mentioning this and if the developers set their plans to purposefully disappoint their female audience (which wasn't exaclt massive at the time, anyway), but it should be stressed that the only reason Anomen is the only female-oriented romance option is that they ran out of money when they were developing this feature. The idea was to have four female and four male romance options (none of which gay-friendly, in case anyone was wondering, but that's beside the point now).
Then what happened is that the people who were working on the Jaheira one snowballed their efforts way past the initial concept and at some point they were left with two options: - to scrap the feature entirely, or... - to cut the loose ends and ship the game with Jaheira's lengthy romance, followed by a bunch of other half-assed ones: Viconia, Ariel, Nadia-or-something and Anomen as the only romanceable male that escaped the ax.
Party control in Baldur's Gate 3 is a complete mess that begs to be addressed. SAY NO TO THE TOILET CHAIN
