These characters do nothing to broaden the narrative and actually works to show that Tiana is sacrificing her social life for work because of their limited screen time.
Even weirder that the movie actually shows us Tiana has Black friends, but they're basically not characters at all (not even getting names) and it only highlights her one white friend.
I might be misremembering, but wasn’t Faye the provider in the family, doing the hunting and fishing while Kratos stayed at home? He was the one doing laundry 😭