I totally get that- I went from "OMG claustrophobic!" to "whee! fresh air!" while you went from "why can't they even share screentime?" to "together every scene!"

Same observation, but in reverse :)

But yeah- Sam/Dean is SO fucked up and so broken and so wrong that all the fluff has to happen in RPS land. There isn't a lot of room for the wacky fluffy sweet the way there is in SGA. But oh, the angst is good...