Kaguya-sama: Love Is War: I think having Fujiwara around did have this effect by the point where the series started; Kaguya's basic coping habits started as either safely controlling everything within range, or giving up and disengaging. It did take Shirogane to give her a reason to keep pushing for some kind of intimacy in a relationship rather than simply tolerating the existence of "friends", but Fujiwara injecting steady doses of the unexpected pushed Kaguya via momentary panic into more emotional responses to Shirogane, until emotional response became the new normal for her. Without Fujiwara around it's more likely either Kaguya would have remained frustrated and too defensive to get anywhere or done something drastic out of frustration and bitterness that would have damaged things too much to continue. (Ishigami also helped, mostly by his particular oddities giving Kaguya the chance to both be and think of herself as the "nice one" for a change once she was far enough along to even consider that.)
This is debatable enough I don't plan to edit the page over it, but I do think the trope is less visibly present in that work.
Kaguya-sama: Love Is War: I think having Fujiwara around did have this effect by the point where the series started; Kaguya's basic coping habits started as either safely controlling everything within range, or giving up and disengaging. It did take Shirogane to give her a reason to keep pushing for some kind of intimacy in a relationship rather than simply tolerating the existence of "friends", but Fujiwara injecting steady doses of the unexpected pushed Kaguya via momentary panic into more emotional responses to Shirogane, until emotional response became the new normal for her. Without Fujiwara around it's more likely either Kaguya would have remained frustrated and too defensive to get anywhere or done something drastic out of frustration and bitterness that would have damaged things too much to continue. (Ishigami also helped, mostly by his particular oddities giving Kaguya the chance to both be and think of herself as the "nice one" for a change once she was far enough along to even consider that.)
This is debatable enough I don't plan to edit the page over it, but I do think the trope is less visibly present in that work.