Dex-chan lover
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Because a lot of modern romance manga are descended from the tropes of dating sim visual novels. Kind of the premise of that genre is that there are multiple girls to choose from, each with their own "route" where their personal story is concluded. So based on the player's choices, each character might be completely ignored, end up reaching their proper ending, or end up somewhere inbetween.
Manga, obviously, isn't usually a medium that accommodates for multiple routes like this. (Though, to be fair, I have seen a few manage to create something similar.) So when you apply the VN formula, you end up with a bunch of girls whose stories end up going nowhere, because while the author is trying to mimic that VN structure with the different routes, only one can actually reach its conclusion. The others just have to stop at some point before it to make way.
And that's not to say that you can't have a manga that does multiple love interests well, (I've read several of them!) but when they end up, as you say, "tedious and [with] no resolution," then yeah it's probably this.
