Yes, this turned me off pretty quick. I read the Technis Imperative trade a loooooong time ago, and it was a solid comic that had the Titans acting like themselves and not letting the JLA kick them around, which was great. Plenty of other great scenes as well, such as Dick finding Donna with her "son" and Raven putting Orion in his place.
But the Fab 5 holding hands and gushing about how much they loved each other was a bit much.
it sounds like that was a regular thing in her ongoing run, so I don't think it would hold much appeal to me.
One thing always seems to lead to the other.
Well, with Aquaman at least, the marriage with Mera was initially gone, they never had a kid that got killed by Manta, Manta's motivation for hating Aquaman was completely different, Orm's entire character and motivations were changed (and improved, IMO), Tula was now Orm's half sister and had never died, etc. The major iconic elements and characters were in place, but a lot of the little details were different. Johns could have implemented these changes in pre-Flashpoint continuity, but he definitely would have had to do some retcons.
I think with Aquaman and definitely Wonder Woman, they just didn't have many big story arcs and runs that progressed their respective mythos like Superman, Batman, GL, the Flash and the Titans did. Like in the entire post Crisis canon, not a whole lot actually
happens in Wonder Woman: she died and became a goddess but it happened in Byrne's run so nobody really cares, her villains never get any focus or character development, she had a parade of forgettable replacement love interests for Steve that never went anywhere, different supporting casts in every run, etc. Rucka's run was great and actually seemed to be progressing towards something before it got hijacked by Infinite Crisis BS, and then we got Amazons Attack!, which everyone is eager to forget. Donna was going through a bunch of crazy nonsense elsewhere and rarely impacted the Wonder Woman book, and aside from gaining a new sidekick in Cassie, Diana's life wasn't that different from where it started. We weren't really losing a lot by giving her a clean slate, and even had the opportunity to get some characters (mainly Steve) back on track. What they actually implemented though was (of course) a mixed bag that resulted in some more problems.