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Stephanie is not well regarded because she was Jackson's love interest and people wished to see him with April. She has never recovered from that.
On the other hand, she is badly written now too. I think she has had a lot of airtime but not a lot of progression as a character. Each episode she received a plot that had nothing to do with the plot of the successive episode. It reminds me of cartoons where you need not watch the previous episode to follow the next. Such is the lack of cohesion in her plots.
She needs something that makes her excitable to the audience for people to notice her. Perhaps that will be the new intern. I think Jo has the same issue in fandom. People don't jump over her and Alex, imo, so she has nothing that makes her pop as a character. Especially since they do not delve into her outside of Alex.
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