I really don't think the reason that Square gave Aeris 20 extra points was because they were expecting most of their audience to prefer Tifa and were compensating for it.
I didn't mean to imply this... I meant that they did it because she came later in the game and needed to balance her out with Tifa.

It is undeniable that there are both cloudxaeris moments and cloudxtifa moments in FFVII.
While I agree Aerith and Cloud seemed to have good chemistry... and they probably had feelings, I have yet to see something that can be used as absolute CxA evidence. Can you please at least give me one (non optional)?

Oh hi Aaron, you and I thought the same thing