Mostly because it’s irrelevant and a waste of a chapter. It’s understandable if the main couple is a slowburn, but for there to be a side couple already in an type of relationship be introduced way much quicker than the actual main couple, it starts to get annoying. It would make more sense for the main couples story to be over and then introduce a side couple instead of just outright putting it in peoples faces.

why are people so mad about having smut of the second couple lol, Its not like the first is going to have sex in the next two chapter or something like that, the author said clearly that is a slowburn