CCCCOMBO BREAKER!
Sorry bout that
I don't think TAR can even have a powerful super couple a la Romber or Brenchel since people who compete on TAR are already in pairs. Any story line that involves two people meeting on the Race and being romantic would just background (Dallas and Starr, season 13) or toxic (season 2).
Eric & Danielle was kind of a try of production at making a super couple (and it failed miserably). Then season 26 had 5 teams of starting line meet ups, but none really had that romantic spark or plot.
That's another reason why season 26 wasn't really bad to me when it started, since I realized that it wasn't 11 couple teams (my least favorite team type) racing, it was 6 couples and 5 teams of acquaintances (then friends, MF at that!).
And besides, TAR doesn't really make people shoot up in stardom, unlike Survivor and Big Brother.