I guess my personal issues with people gossiping about / pushing for / each other's relationships get grounded here, and probably make me more sensitive to it than I have any good reasons to be. "Diminishes my perception of" is literal truth, though it reveals a streak of intolerance in myself wider than I'd like.
I don't think it's a problem with where the story's going though; mostly I see it as a problem with people having picked something in the future as a "destination" and now being focused on the unseen destination rather than allowing themselves to enjoy the trip.
Where they see a "ship tease" I see characters in a relationship that now includes some tension and some attraction and some denial and some doublethink and some orientation/identity issues. It's nuanced, and it's good character development, and the current situation is as much the "destination" as any other part of the trip. So why doesn't anybody seem to appreciate the current situation as a thing in itself, instead of just as a transitory state toward what they imagine some future situation might be?
Everybody could see, a year ago or so, that Corpse Witch was in need of a swift buttkick out of Faye & Bubbles' life. And just such a buttkick did eventually arrive. But I don't recall any serious obsessing about what form and shape that buttkick would take or how it was going to be delivered or by whom or even when. It wasn't a "tease", it was story development. And people were interested in all the bits of story along the way. People speculated about CW's past, about the skatepark's ownership, about what had been done to Bubbles, about whether CW was trying to get leverage over Faye, about past interactions between CW and the police, about corruption and complicity, etc etc etc, and it was all about the story as it was happening. We didn't have everybody focused on the single future buttkicking event as the only possible point of the whole story.
Now they are focused on one thing. They are focused on the development or non-development of romantic/sexual love between these characters. And everything else is getting lost, or passing them by, without any thought or discussion or, it seems to me, even perception. They are invested in particular outcomes, like romance or rejection etc, instead of being able to accept that good stories can be built around whatever outcome comes about. That's even true if the "outcome" is long-term continuation of the tension, since after all the author may be telling a DIFFERENT story using the tension for character depth to inform how these characters see someone ELSE's situation.
To me the sexual/romantic aspect of this character relationship is one topic. It's about five percent of what there is to discuss. It's in the future and a bunch of other things are in the present. When fifty percent of the discussion is used to talk about five percent of the subject matter, I get impatient and wonder why people are being so willfully blind to everything else.