Zutara just doesn't interest me. At all. I haven't even thought about it in the level of detail that you have -- I simply do not see any attraction between them, I like their canon pairings, and I am not much interested in romance anyway.

This can be rather frustrating since Zuko is one of my favorites, and it is damnably hard to find Zuko-centric fic that isn't also Zutara. *headdesk*