>>108498577Part of the appeal was that nobody had even half as much screentime as Ben, Gwen and Grandpa. Part of it was that they were effectively living together, while on a roadtrip. Part of it was how well they complemented each other and how, over the course of the original series, they became an effective duo.
These are good building blocks for any fictional relationship. So, I don't think it would have actually changed anything if the showrunners had gone with their original idea.
