i might be cynical, but to me it strongly recalls the "woman in the refrigerator" syndrome common in comics - the majority of the women, and the vast majority of their "reasons" to be in the show or plotlines, revolved around giving motivation to the male characters, mainly house

quite a lot of it has to do with house being the main character, and that alone is just because, hey, title character vs. other characters. but when it's basically every single character, and every single motivation?