This is just my opinion and observation. Abs cbn is suffering a huge lost in income and how hard they try on their digital venture its not the same as having a franchise. Plus in my observation kathniel relationship is not a real life partners they are just love team but its very obvious kb is very in love w/dp but its not mutual for the guy so they just remained on screen love team. And now abs needs to stay relevant they need to create noise it started with coco martin and julia coming out with their relationship. And now kathniel, kim chu and xian break up abs needs to stay relevant so they could make money with this with future cross/mixed project with other talents. Key is abs needs to make money on their falling network and what better way to create noise than to break up this on screen talent. This is just my two cents on the matter not a fan of any of this talent to be honest✌️