A lot of people having been voicing their opinions about the romance pace in rc, so here's mine
I'm a slowburn girlie, I think seasons are extremely important to how you pace your slowburn, if it's a 4 season book - you can slowburn to the death of you but by season 3, start wrapping shit up and make them a full blown couple... if it's a 3-seasons book, mami start giving us the couple shit by beginning of season 2 (not whatever wtc is doing because the fans keep complaining of lack of romance)
As much as I love slowburns, I also love passion and smut, If it's deadass in season 3 and they are barely having sex or aren't spending a large amount of time being a couple, that's torture-burn not slowburn
And slowburn is needed if their relationship is really complicated e.g enemies to lovers Tiss and the entire imperial characters (I trust jester in this, he is best in the slow pace)....I would have also said amen and eva as an enemies to lovers example of why slowburn is needed but they aren't slowburn
orrr if there's some angst on their route like memory loss or something cain and lane, or where the situation they're in doesn't allow much space for feelings like being a leader with people relying on you in the apocalypse e.g dmitry and lane....slowburn is needed
BUT, what I seriously dislike about some rc books is the LI only getting together at the end because they were slowburn...like wtf?? (And it's most times the 3-season books, they're always rushed) No, I want to see them go through couple things for half of the book please, not rushing them through 3 episodes and giving us some tired ass wedding at the end....which is why I need most books to be four seasons, give them enough time to spread out the relationship while also focusing on the plot
A couple getting together early on in the season and staying throughout with nothing to spice up the relationship but dry ass sex scenes and little to no couple interactions, then having a wedding in the last season, does absolutely nothing for me which is why I love slowburn/angst (give us all the drama and feelings in the beginning and by the time the boring part is coming, where the couple no longer wows the reader, the story would have already started wrapping up)