Why would he have portrayed their interactions this way if SS was the intention all along?
It's clear as day and night that SS was never established from the begging, like Kishi is saying now. But let's hypothetically say that he decided from the start that the final pairings would be SS&NH...the fact that he intentionally mislead his audience for 15 YEARS, causing people to hate each other because of the pairing they supported, shows me what a bad author / human being he is. I still believe that the change is because of money, pierrot and his assistants, and this makes him a terrible author for not having the spine to stick by his beliefs and ideas