Forcing the author to push through highly difficult topics isn't a writing exercise in this case, but a constraint, pushing hir into situations that are entirely too complex to do negotiate under limitations, without the resources that ze would need to succeed.

THIS. I keep getting dragged into a conversation about the entirety of the hurt/comfort genre, and I'm like, I don't have a problem with the existence of h/c! I have a problem with the shape and structure of this one challenge.