I don't think I've actually done a save where I rejected Jill at Ep8 without also being on the Bella path, so I don't know how that goes. Is the bench scene used for the rejection, in this instance?
Break-ups are often shitty, but there are some really shit ones here. Regardless of the reasons he tells himself/the girls, I have one who gets told over the phone, one who (choice dependant) gets told by actions rather than words, and one (pair) who go through an entire party, having fun (if feeling a bit abandoned), only to get the night spoiled just to top off everything else that gets spoiled for them.
Sage is the only one who (bearing in mind I've somehow not seen that Jill possibility) does okay out of it. And she takes it like a champ too, partly because she's awesome, partly because she wasn't as emotionally attached by that point, and partly, perhaps, because it was done in a mature way.
But also, who puts someone like Sage in the friendzone? That's not the way it's supposed to happen!