Oh, I dunno. If Diana/Steve had been there from the beginning, all those bad romances would have just been bad takes on Diana/Steve. Except, unlike those guys, it would have stuck, because it would be this ongoing, from-the-beginning part of her character. (Witness pre-Crisis.) This way at least the crap never lasts too long. Plus, y'know, if Cassie and Polly and Donna and Nessie and Clark couldn't stand in the way of the "not human enough" bull, I'm not sure Steve could have made much difference either. -_-