Then that is a bad take lol and that’s not even taking romance into consideration. Like it or not, Peeta did make Katniss so much more palatable to the capitol. I don’t really buy her having as much sway as she did, especially early on, without the star crossed lovers angle. She likely would’ve done what she could to survive and continue to try to keep her head down
i mean without him pretending to side with the careers and running back to tell her her to run after the tracker jackers she probably would’ve died, and without him to push the star-crossed lovers angle i don’t think she would’ve have gotten nearly as many sponsors as she did; maybe in the games after he was injured he wasn’t as helpful but he was still able to help her sell the romance which imo is the only reason they were able to get out of that arena at all