It's good to have some square pegs around to keep us round ones from rolling off the table!
And I've come around a lot in the past couple years about my flexibility of pairing Methos with others.
And, yeah, I hear you on the anti-OTP stance. Sometimes it's because the crowd is rushing in one direction that you just don't want to go with them! There was a huge Methos/Krycek era for a bit and I was swamped in it. I really like Methos/Skinner. Now that is a hard pairing to find. Ask for recs? Get pointed to all the Krycek stuff.