User blog comment:Eobard95/Could Felicity still be dead?/@comment-24152851-20170916004400/@comment-26624146-20170916014111

Because over the last 3 years they've been trying to force Olicity onto the audiences but there are so many reasons it just doesn't work anymore and last season proved that audiences generally love the show without it, yet Felicity herself still has a lot of negativity during that season regardless because of how badly Olicity was done. They're also trying to make Arrow last as long as Supernatural which makes sense if they want all the Arrowverse shows to end at the same time, as I think Flash is leading to the 2024 crisis which means Arrow may go to season 12. If they want that to happen properly though they can't keep Felicity around because she just causes too much division because of what she has done and what she may do. Killing her may even bring back some of the audiences who left because of Olicity.

Season 3 it started to get a bit jumpy because they went for Olicity and season 4 it escelated and things like Felicity's over the top reaction to William in 4x08, then her second for real reaction in 4x15 didn't help. Hell 600,000 people left in the following week for that alone. Then finally in 4x18 they killed off Laurel to pursue Olicity and that just pissed even more people off since many people were already going off it. Now people are dreading the idea of it's return because of 5x20 and believe season 6 will be a failure before it even starts. So I think if Arrow wants to keep going while keeping the audiences it has and without being the source of ridicule they need to get rid of the source: Felicity.