And you know why Rogue & Scott did all these things together? Because, and I want you to read this
very carefully and to
fully understand this:
Scott and Jean were
not dating.
Jean, being the Head Cheerleader, was
dating some OC (Duncan? Donald? I can't recall his name)
who was captain of the football team (because high school stereotype!). Even after they were outed as mutants at the end of Season 2/start of Season 3 which lead to Jean's break-up with OC-McUnimportantFace, Scott and Jean were
still not dating. Even after the outing they weren't dating. Hell, for a good chunk of the series
Jean disliked Scott.
There was no love triangle except in your mind.
And yes, the show writers DID cater to the shippers on that final season episode I mentioned previously. The writers have come out to admit this in post-series interviews at conventions that the only reason the Rogue/Gambit episode happened in Season 4 is because the shippers refused to shut-up about it. Otherwise they had
absolutely no interest in pairing Rogue with Gambit.
If any of your follow-up replies are of the "but but scott and rogue did this and why not gambit love triangle" variety
yet again then I'm going to figure-out how the ignore system works.