They put in gay romances purely for click-bait and rage-bait purposes

In these games yes, because they are literally nothing. Something a guy probably slapped together in a weekend for a cheap checkbox check. It has no deeper value and never matters.

Its not even a purely gay problem. Sleeping Dogs is a famously beloved game that basically shoved in a bunch of empty romance quests that immediately disappeared after it was done.

BG3

This game it is not. Games in this genre live and breathe off their romance lines. Its basically 95% of the replayability for them once the hype passes. Mass Effect is the most famous example where people decide who they romance as they make their character.

While some of them are made to be clickbait-y, I can say the product feels like the "game" portion is just dressing for reaching the "dating sim" portion. Which is an industry wide thing, as games like Persona can attest.