Yeah, I don't care how long it was or wasn't in the game's files, not the point.
OOC is that when Tav tries to break up with AA before the epilogue, he forces them to stay with him, once again in the epilogue, I ask for freedom, he denies it: "Not this again". I mean, the second time Tav isn't even asking for break up, they literally ask for "FREEDOM".
And AA denies it.
He keeps this Tav as his slave and literally denies them freedom when asked for exactly this, but somehow he is okay to let them to go with Karlach?
Nah.
