You make two excellent points. I agree with you completely that a home for rarepairs who need more exposure makes just as much as sense as rarepairs for the sake of rarepairs. I think someone earlier proposed a way to limit "iffy" pairs by making it so only one person can write that specific pairing for a while. I could agree to that so we don't more popular iffy pairings overshadowing the truly rare ones. In the end, it comes down to the definition of rarepair and the goal of this comm, but I, for one, am pulling for meeting both goals, too.