either they're playing smut with straight-up middle schoolers and don't give a single fuck, or they're ostensibly taking them from several years post-canon where they'd be old enough so that it's a little less sketchy.

It's still sketchy.

I like Precure as a concept but the fandom, both here on dreamwidth and elsewhere, is too full of gross stuff like this for me to be able to enjoy it to any real degree. I might have questionable ships in my own fandoms, but at least everyone's actually of legal age? Yeah.