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Sure, a lot of things sounded good "in theory". Yuri ships aren't anything new in Hololive (other JPs had successful ones before, though they had the benefit of organic buildup), it even fit with the "lore", and got somewhat official backing (as even management pushed it together at the time). It's no wonder Kiara thought it would be fun to try (I reckon it was her idea, as I can't imagine the wigger brapper ever initiating a yuri ship on her own - sure, she certainly went along with the idea, and wasn't forced by Kiara or anything, but she probably wasn't the driving force).
What they probably didn't realize was how tiring and exhausting all that having to keep up the fake relationship acting would be in the long run. It's okay for a one off gag once in a while, but when it pretty much defines your character for almost a whole year, it gets annoying pretty fast, and especially Mori let that show with how little she cared sometimes. Kiara also came off worse in the whole ordeal. Mori had at least some other stuff ("I'm a cool rapper!" etc) to define her character, while Kiara was pretty much flanderized by the fandom into just being "Calli's wife" and very little else, which is not a good place to be if you ever want to grow into your own independently. It got especially obnoxious when they had their interactions with other Hologirls interrupted because there was always shipniggers in chat making it weird "nooo, you can't do that, Calli/Kiara doesn't like that, is gonna be jealous!" etc. and they had to drop the charade after it became too much of a burden, and tell the shipniggers to chill out, to finally have some normal interactions with other people