Oh no, I GET Claude's character. I very much do, and I understand why he is written that way in Golden Wildfire.
The problem is they MASSIVELY overcorrected and now its complete nonsense, especially in the face of Edelgard's wrongness.
But this isn't the 3 Houses/Hopes channel.
I mean, if you are going to make it OUR problem, I would probably state the obvious point of "The Japanese devs shouldn't have any kind of lines that would imply romance or grooming of underaged characters in the first place" or "The localization team, whom prides themselves on working directly with the JP devs and influencing their development, are equally responsible for letting this enter the JP dialogue at all, in this global release where anyone can just turn on a switch and read the JP text; and should NOT receive for 'fixing' a problem they let in the first place".
But since neither is particularly a "fair" point to address, I think "a localization team should strive to keep content congruent with the original text, even if it includes warts and all" is the reasonable stance here.
This is actually inaccurate to what most people are saying, if slightly so. You don't actually marry ANYONE in Engage, to be blunt (Engage is just filled with backwards-decisions...).
What is changed is that younger characters, as well as many older/same-aged characters, have lines that explicitly mention romance or loving Alear cut or altered, including copious amounts of "as a friend" in the dialogue. Hortensia is very much a blatant example, with her outright declaration of love being completely cut. This becomes awkward, as many Wake Up Lines, which gain unique variations with S-supports, are very clearly romantic and not platonic as the S-support would imply or state.
The easiest way to put it in terms fans would understand is "What if Lysithea had Alois's S-Support?" Three Houses had many epilogue slides that downplayed romantic inclinations into more ambiguous terms, but it's never been this bad or blatant.
I will debunk a censorship claim, though, as people have been saying the CGs have been altered so that said younger characters don't wear the Pact Ring on their ring finger. They have not been altered, this is a misunderstanding/outright fabrication by /v/ to fuck with people. There is only one set of S-Support CGs in the data, and none have particularly obvious photoshop marks (there could be a few you could squint your eyes and get paranoid over, but I would chalk this more up to the...bad artist they keep hiring for these CGs...)