Exactly my point, thank you. The gatekeeping here to me is pigeonholing what a love story has to be. It isn't a love story of they're not a certain age or haven't been "together" if you will for some amount of time. There are countless stories out there about young lovers who hardly know each other and those are considered perfectly normal love stories. And like you said this isn't unique even to Shakespeare. The love in Much Ado About Nothing is kinda ridiculous, love in Othello ends in tragedy too etc. I think people say this not a love story thing about Romeo and Juliet because they hear it a lot and they think saying it makes them smarter than others and if that isn't the definition of gatekeeping...