The thing is, for every bit as bad as you feel for Ten, and as pasted-on a relationship as you may feel Ten II/Rose is, there are just as many people who seem to be genuinely, seriously pissed off at Ten for behaving as he did towards Rose, and the seeming (to them) coldness and paternalistic decisionmaking on her behalf throws Ten II's obvious desire to be warm and kind and to let her choose for herself into even sharper relief.

Which is not to say it's a viewpoint I agree with (although I like Ten II). But even amongst folks who adore Ten (versus those who've continued to sit shiva for Nine since 2005), feelings do run the gamut.

What I have to say I completely don't get are the people who write the Ten II/Rose fics as if a) his feelings are vastly different from Ten's (versus simply expressed differently), or b) he's literally a human being now (if he were a mostly-human Time Lord-Human Biological Metacrisis, he'd have been dying already and there's no freaking way either Ten or Ten II would've left Rose stranded with him in Pete's World just to watch him die).

If you like to hew to canon, Ten/Rose is now prologue. I know that sounds terribly dismissive, but that's sure to be a contributing factor as well.

If you write Ten/Rose at this point, you either keep approximately to canon and write in the past (humansrsuperior is doing an interesting series right now; mtemplar_fic is about to start posting another long fic), or you are forced to enter the realm of 100% AU.