people will always comment on ships they don’t like with, “not everything needs to be romance.” like oh, okay, you think like that? then go apply that to your ships since it’s what you want, sounds good?
personally, enemies to lovers only works when both characters have genuine moral complexity and that needs a strong plotline. it's probably the hardest trope to write about and not all authors can pull it off well
my fav group got a shitty ai video for comeback promo (despite them being anti ai themselves it's the fuckass company) meanwhile i'm crashing out over my art assignment file not saved and lack of fics on ao3