jafarfromamused replied to your post:
Ironic; they keep her from aging in order to not have “old women” in the game, and then she ends up not being that popular. Honestly, I think it would have been better had she aged; her complaints about “losing her time” would have had more weight.
I thought her lack of popularity stemmed from the fact that her presence in the story is pretty redundant; she was written in a way to make her vital to progress but she (and Regal) honestly aren't that vital to the plot as a whole which makes me sad because I like them both but I can't say that they're that important
Also I think the design choice was made because Japan loves their lolis but I agree if she had been an adult physically that time loss would be more potent, the dysphoria between her appearance, experiences, and natural maturity would be really painful for her to go through and I like it when fictional people suffer because I'm a Shitty Person