Why add all these gay relationships if the love interest is always someone even most fujoshis couldnt make themselves care about?? Even they typically cant suspend their belief THIS much, seeing these hunky superheroes next to their 'lovers' is downright comical.
DC wants to have their cake and eat it too.
Fujoshis only want characters to be gay due to a particular pairing they like, which DC is fully unwilling to commit too. I think they just take the lesser popular character and make them gay as a consolation prize to act like they care. Tim Drake is a good example as his ass got booted to lowest rank Robin after Jason came back and Damian got pushed. He was an easy target for the gay ray, but DC didn’t want to fully commit to fujoshis who only wanted gay Robin because Superboy was end game in their canon.
Jon seems to be getting a similar fate. The only reason to make the super son gay would be if Damian was end game, but because Damian is too mainstream, they won’t commit.
For all the problems that lesbian Harley brought, at least DC was smart enough to understand Ivy was the only reason anyone cared. They cannot seem to hold that mentality for all these new age characters they keep gayifying.
Edit: A big reason why they won’t follow Fujos is also DC’s persistent brand solidarity that forbids their crossover universe from crossing over too much. They don’t want a Bat project to be dragged down by Super lore just to explain the super powered teen pegging Robin.
I don’t think Raven and BB was too popular with anybody except fans of the old show which is why DC kept pairing them off with other random people with barely a peep of protest. And I don’t think they officially got together in the show either although I haven’t seen it for years.
The show has kept the Titans on life support for two decades, so may as well be the definitive version by now. 03 never had BBRae be a thing, fans just took to it because Raven was often paired up with Beast Boy and Cyborg, which lead to BB having a good sum of emotional moments with her. The follow up, TTG was the thing that made it canon, hilariously enough, only furthering the fandom.
Nowadays, no one gives a shit about Titans comics because, duh… In saying this, pretty much every big normie title, like the Raven book by Kamie Garcia, always pairs them together. TV shows likewise also always go that direction between Titans and TTG. The DCAMU is really the only unique case where there is a switch up.