why is current generation of shipping so weak?

I stumbled across a thread, and someone posted a ship that was a perfectly fine, man x woman ship - it got eaten ALIVE. Why? People thought the guy was gay which, by the way, this is for a gacha game. Infamously, appeals to all - there is really no canon sexuality and especially not for this guy and yet, the replies were just blatantly cruel.

But that's not what really caught my attention; I noticed an argument - other than "he's gay" and casual misogyny of the female character in the ship - was that his other gay ship had more implications and more canon content?? And it's ass ship because of that?

Back in my day 👵 people shipped fuck all for jokes, unironically, whatever - implications or canon or hell even the same media had little to no weight on what ship people liked. What happened??

I feel like it should have more to do than proship/antiship because i saw people with "anti dni" in their bio calling how ass the ship was. And its not even bad ship either like perfectly fine. Boring maybe but they had a cute dynamic and a lot in common and interacted ! But man the reaction to it was just pure revulsion; what happened to just frowning and move on?

so i'm not really sure why shipping went this way.

Like i understand why people react negatively to incest or large age gaps or noncon because that can be gross (part of the point, certainly not supposed to be vanilla) but a non-"implied" ship???? That ship has 4 fans why are you mass reporting it. I dont get it