Valerie being Stefan’s first love is dumb asf

I’m watching Season 7: Age of Innocence and whatever they had was just dumb I mean come on he was 16 then apparently a year later at 17 his actual first love was Katherine and technically because he met Katherine he fell for Elena as well bc not only did she resemble Katherine she was the complete opposite of her

I’ve heard she keeps trying to weasel herself into his heart basically what Katherine did but she did it with Flair, drama, and Murder, Apparently she was doing it annoyingly from what I’ve heard this whole Valerie plot is not relevant to the plot at all from what I’ve gathered she’s basically just an extra Heretic they included for Stefan which was completely unnecessary

Also supposedly he would be waiting for her but as soon as Katherine showed up he switched up, and that’s not even how Stefan is