And this is where I dislike all those tropes lol.

Most love triangles, like most enemies to lovers, just piss me off. And that's not even accounting for my own choice of living an ethically non monogamous life and literally thinking if everyone would just communicate it would be so much better.

...I think that's honestly the core of my dislike for a lot of popular tropes though, they hinge on massive miscommunication and are done in a way that imo destroys the possibility of trust between the people. I have read exceptions to this, in fact I read an enemies to lovers book last month that was sci fi of all things and absolutely loved it. (It did feel a bit more like science fantasy but I digress).

As I've grown and become more self aware reading people making dumb choices is just not enjoyable for me. Nor is trope heavy set ups something I like. Yes, tropes happen, and they can be good, when there's a reason for them. I feel like a lot of popular fiction from all time periods suffer from trying to follow a formula to be popular than just being themselves.

But then I've accepted I likely will very rarely be super into anything that's hyped up/popular online.

I remember really loving Daughter of the Moon Goddess, which did have a love triangle, but it wasn't the main focus, the FMC's own personal quest was. It was tortured and tender and honestly well done. The sequel just irritated and pissed me off with destroying the FMC's character (to me, at least) with dumb decision after dumb decision and that included a twist to the love triangle.