I think that if they remade an earlier FE game (maybe the 1st or 3rd one because
) without waifus, people would whine about how they want their precious waifus and how the game will suck without them, thus leading them to do it. Awakening's ideas were great and revived the series, but that doesn't mean your sales have to rely onto that one feature that relied to them. You were reviving a strategy game, not a ****ing medieval dating sim with fighting in it.
But don't take it from me, I only played the early FE games (1 - 3 to be specific)