Man, dear shippers, it's ok to have a canon ship, it's ok that it's not yours, gtfover it.

I don't really blame the creators, but I think their shipbaiting did make some expectation in some fans' minds that they wouldn't canonize anything. I prefer different ships, but Sokka/Suki and Aang/Katara and Zuko/Mei are canon. I think it's the line between people who ship ships that are like 'theoretically possible' vs people who ship the never gonna happen ships, you get different expectations and they make you crankier than when you go in knowing your ship will never happen.