Maybe some world building?

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I guess there should be a distinction between enemies to lovers ships and hero / villain ships, but there is nothing wrong with the latter, and I don't think it's at all common for the woman to be the defensive partner. I mean, Batman/Catwoman and Geralt/Yennifer come to mind.

Although, honestly, Katara enjoyed the hell out of beating Zuko's ass.

From the very beginning, Zuko makes it clear that he's chasing after Aang, not Katara or anyone else, and he reaffirms that in The Waterbending Scroll to her face.

Also from the very beginning, Katara makes the active choice to protect Aang and put herself between him and Zuko. Aang was already gone, her village was safe and realistically they had no hope of catching up to them. And still, Katara went looking for a boat. No one forced or asked her to do that. But that is the choice she made and continues to make.

The one exception to that rule is when Zuko hires June, and even then he is really after Aang; That Katara would have left behind Aang just then is something no one would have predicted (and a decision she and Sokka had already gone back on). At this point, Zuko also knows he can't get to Aang without first dealing with her in some way and talking/negotiating clearly isn't a viable option.

And yes. Katara very clearly enjoyed that fight in the North Pole.

But also the hetero qualifier to this critique feels a bit useless once you think it through: In a WLW ETL, the hero/defensive role can only ever be filled by a woman and in a MLM ETL, there is no woman.

And you already pointed out that there are prominent and popular examples that flip those roles, but also, putting the woman in the "defensive role" is generally a result of making the woman the hero (and protagonist) of the story in the first place.

Anyway, the next night we watched a thing about some pig man who is supposed to live in Vermont. People said it had claws and a pig nose but walked upright like a man. Now, I happen to know that sideshows used to shave bears and present them as pig men. So every piece of evidence they gave of this monster sounds to me like a bear with mange.

So now the running joke in our house is that everything is bears. Aliens? Bears. Loch Ness monster? Bear. Every cryptozoological mystery is just a very crafty bear.

But joking aside, while grimwalkers and undead wizards fit the pop culture perception of necromancy, I'm not convinced that the people of the Boiling Isles would call those things "necromancy".

The one time the show confirms that necromancy is a known thing* is when Gus considers resorting to "forbidden sources" to do his interview of someone "interesting, accomplished and noteworthy". And in this context, the older definition simply fits better:

Necromancy is a form of divination that involves communing with the dead and/or summoning their spirits.

Which is perfect for what Gus wants to do with it. And under that definition, necromancy would be part of the Oracle track. If it isn't straight up illegal, that is.

because what eurydice thinks he means is “you’ll be like a diamond is in a mine, surrounded by filth or poverty but you yourself valuable/pure”

He's talking about a pet. A caged songbird that will sing and entertain and stay in its cage. A canary is the stereotypical pet bird for that.

But again. He's taking her into a mine. The context changes the meaning.

The purpose of the canary in the mine isn't to entertain the foreman. It's to protect the workers, to help them recognize a threat they can't see.

In canon, all it took for Katara to go from "Zuko is the enemy" to "I want Zuko to join us" was one conversation, one heart to heart. (Crossroads of Destiny).

And even before that, Katara was willing to give Zuko the benefit of the doubt the moment he stopped working against them (The Chase).

Katara coming around to Zuko quickly once they team up in a canon divergence is fully in character.

Now, if we go to Book 3, she seems to hate him more than she did before. But it isn't simply hate. She's angry, so, so angry at Zuko because she wanted him to be good, because she gave him her trust, and that ended in Zuko taking Azula's side and Aang's (temporary) death. So of course she's wary of letting him get close.

And yet Katara doesn't say a word when Zuko wants to take Aang away to look for the sun warrior ruins. Doesn't look concerned when Zuko and her brother disappear on a "fishing trip" in the middle of the night.

Despite everything, Katara really does believe Zuko when he tells them that he changed, even if she won't admit that out loud.

And when she does forgive him, she does not do it reluctantly, but enthusiastically, immediately going for a tight hug and treating him as a close and trusted friend from that point on.

This is all canon, this is in character.

"I'll never forget what you did for me..."