What this really is is a power fantasy. Whether it's frustration at the losing heroine suffering or fakeouts from inconvenient gusts of wind, this is manifesting our wish to keep pushing past those tropes for just a bit longer.
This is great. I really dislike the constant reuse of the same tropes over and over and over in romcoms, so seeing them all subverted or made fun of is refreshing.
Now, that said, I wonder if the author isn't rushing things...