Originally Posted by AmayaTenjo
I was told the romance as a whole was a last minute addition to the game.

This definitely isn't true. Some of them were tweaked quite a lot late in the process, though.

As a fan of old school BioWare games, romancing companions is something I really enjoy and look forward to. Larian has made some huge strides in that department compared to what we got in DOS2; it'll be interesting to see where they go next.