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Making you play as her just felt contrived. It would have been cool if Ellie and Abby had been thrown together, with them not knowing who each other was. They could have been a duo escaping a common enemy (the cult), and then suspicions slowly arise between the two before they realize who the other is.
It was hard to sympathize with Abby as a player since she didn't exactly have the moral high ground. Her dad died after trying to hold a knife up to Joel who was trying to save his daughter, right? That's not equivalent of turning Joel into mush in front of Ellie.
I'm just going to spoiler tag my whole reply since I'm on Mobile and it's hard to format it perfectly.
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Yeah, but Abby doesn't see it that way. She sees her dad as a doctor who could have saved humanity and who was killed by Joel, who by doing so doomed all of humanity.
Also, Joel didn't have the moral high ground in saving Ellie at the expense of all of the Fireflies and Doctors. We swallow that pill as the audience/players because we feel connected to him and Ellie. That's why I think playing as Abby first would make the player feel connected first, and then conflicted later, rather than hatred first, and empathy and understanding later.
Abby and Ellie teaming up like you suggest would make for a cool story also.