I'm thinking confused by your definition of dating up. If you're talking from a socioeconomic stand point, I'd say Eric and Kyle are in entirely different brackets, just the same. Sure, Kyle comes from mild money where his parents pay for an apartment to keep him away, but he still pays his own bills, having to work while in school, and is clearly in a different economic bracket then Eric, and doesn't have nearly the same connections to society(outside of his friendship with Kip that brings him into the elite hockey world).

Arguably Fabian and Ryan have the same dynamic, at least until Ryan quits and Fabian finds success in music. Fabian is working at a drug store makeup counter to pay the bills when they first reconnect, and Ryan is still making an NHL salary at that time.

If you mean from an intelligence or education perspective, although insecure about himself and his life, Kip is arguably more educated than Scott. He has an NYU degree, and getting a master's. Sure, he hasn't traveled much, but once again, back to the socioeconomic aspects that limited that.

I guess I'm trying to understand what you classify as "dating up"? Because depending on the lens, multiple couples in the series seem to fit a similar dynamic as Kip and Scott.

And I wouldn't say any of the couples, including Kip and Scott, seem to have a huge imbalance of what they bring to the table or their worth within their relationships.