I sort of missed BoldGate and don't really understand what it's all about, or more importantly, what the big deal is.

But I agree with angua9 in that in my opinion both ships are important to the story. I think that any overshadowing R/H may be doing at the moment is comparable to H/G squeeing after HBP. That was the book where we finally got H/G. This was the book that finally gave us R/H. I've never really been able to choose between the ships (except to the extent that Ron is my favorite character so I've tended to defend R/H a bit more in my day), so I was equally excited for both ships. I also suppose I've been away for too long; I remember R/Hers and H/Gers being mostly the same group. I didn't realize a rivalry had developed. :(