The vociferous ship antis sure love to spam a ship tag just to scream hate into a space that's not for them. There's a much longer form of thoughts on the series that I've been working on forever, but here's some brief ones about Five/Lila/Diego:
Lila didn't ask for a separation out of nowhere, neither did Lila and Diego's marriage randomly collapse. They had a shotgun marriage after barely knowing each other for a few weeks at most and their marriage has been worsening for 6 years with Diego openly resenting his wife, kids, and in laws on the daily. He's always had an issue with her keeping things from him and assumes the worst of her. Lila is severely burnt out with the endless mental load of the entire family of 5 that she's carrying alone. Lila tried to find a way to deal with the unhappiness on her own, not wanting even more negative reactions from him than he already constantly expresses. The supposed point of the New Grumpson trip was them spending time as a duo without the kids and Lila and Diego did talk through the respective issues they have with one another, but it's made clear they have unreconcilable differences to the point that they can't even get along in a literal life or death situation. She will always care about him as the father of their kids, but their relationship as a couple doesn't work.
It should be normalized to end toxic relationships, especially toxic marriages, and I'm glad to see Lila did so. Lila didn't cheat on Diego, she amicably, verbally separated from Diego and she didn't even start a new relationship until over 6 and a half years after the separation and she almost died endless times. Dating wasn't even on her mind, Diego kept projecting it on her, she just wanted to go enjoy doing what she liked, which is going on missions and figuring things out, until she got trapped in the mercurial subway out of time. Five and Lila kept each other safe and in positive spirits through the hell they endured for years and years before they found romantic love with each other. They got to know each other extremely well before they went to that next step. Five being Diego's brother also isn't anything wrong. Five himself is single and available and always sees things how they are and the marriage was over in the present and then long over for years with in the subway with the situation looking like they will be in the subway forever before things change between Five and Lila. TUA has always been a morally grey series with these characters being the morally greyest of them all and they didn't even cheat or home wreck in the context of their nuanced situations. It's just arbitrary to impose absolute morals on them all of a sudden to be contrary for the sake of it, especially when there's so much actually in the text to show how things played out the way they did.
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