I thought they were going to do that with Allie where she would let a couple she knows adopt them but no Sami forced her to have the kid who turned out to be her rapist's baby.
Speaking of Joey I thought it would be a good story that the kid Joey had with his HS GF Jade wasn't really dead after all and kidnapped by Orpheus(who turned the kid against them).
I don't mind Stephanie but I preferred her when Shelley Hennig was in the role I loved her romance with Phillip back then. That was ruined for Melanie.