Becouse we love this character and want to interact with her again. Pretty simple.
You continuously put your own opinion as that of the entire community.
You love Bastila (as well as some others). I did not care much for the Bastila character for the majority part of the game. The only time she was interesting is when you meet her on the temple top....aside from that she seemed rather boring and not deep at all.
I do not want to see her because I want to meet new characters that are much deeper and more interesting as a result. If any of you have played Planescape: Torment, you would know that MCA is capable of making much more fascinating characters, that you are always engaging in conversations again and again just to see if they have anything new to say.
Which says a lot for the characters in KOTOR, since she isn't very deep. In any case I found Jolee to much more fascinating than Bastilla. I always found myself waiting for him to say something. His stories were interesting....Bastila's were not nearly as so. I preferred the internal conflict of Carth over Bastila's cliched character. Although I did like most of the character sidequests, since they generally created internal conflicts within the characters.
Although I would like some verification of these sidequests if someone has a moment:
Bastila and her mom
Carth and his son (never done this one)
Mission and her brother
Zaalbar and his home planet
Juhani and a murderer of her race
Canderous and some goons or something (did this one once a long time ago).
Jolee and Sunry (??? not sure if this is actually his side quest or if there is something more...seems to quick).
HK-47 and his repairs
T3 and.......ok fine nothing here...but since he was virtually untapped I don't mind his addition to KOTOR 2....they can make something more out of him.
all those sidequests seem to be correct
and the trial of sunry is a sidequest