Have noticed in Avengers fic, and it's bugging me

Impression I got from watching Iron Man films: Tony Stark has three friends, two of them his employees. Happy, Rhodey and Pepper. They talk different amounts about different things, but they're there, in his life, having conversations, sparring with him, and intermittently yelling at him when he has done something legitimately deeply stupid. Which, lets face it, is a not inconsiderable amount of time. Tony is shiny, but he is not wise.

Impression from Avengers fic?
Well, there's some of it that also has Pepper in. A tiny bit of Rhodey. And little to none of Happy, to the point he's pretty much just a taxi. Not even a taxi driver, they talk more.

I realise it's a side effect of the kind of fic I read that it usually gets rid of The Girlfriend (though, really, there should be more poly fic, there's all kinds of awesome possibilities), but getting rid of all his friends? For why?

JARVIS and the bots feature more than Happy. And while bots are indeed awesome, it's kind of bugging me.

New friends do not mean old friends are stinky.

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Basically, Avengers fic: The more the merrier.

(And I say this as someone who only reads the ones where Tony ends up with Steve.)