Well she said at one point Noe was the winner, but that was likely back when Hiromi looked l
ike this and Noe
like this which tells me these girls weren't the ones we know (the Hiromi we know just doesn't wink like that, if anything it makes me wonder if that girl became Aiko
)
So Okada didn't want just a Noe ending she wanted a completely different story but other writers ignored her outlines and did their own thing,she actually ended up liking what they did and rewrote her parts to fit in with what they had done,that included changing the ending.