I wrote a post about this like yesterday or the day before that quickly got buried and probably not read because it was a really long post, but agree with OP 100%. This is one of the major problems at the moment with character relationships/interaction, though IMO there are more. If you're interested, read
here. It's like on page 100 or something at this point I imagine.
For sure, "romance" in particular right now is not only un-organic, but completely forced and jarring.
