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I don't see how it's 'dissing' anything. Romance does rely upon the same formula over and over again. The paranormal YA romances are increasingly abiding by applying a formula of their own over and over again, which leads me to think at some point this needs to be its own genre.
Well, paranormal romance IS its own subgenre. And being called paranormal romance, readers are going to expect...romance.
So they all follow a "formula" if romance is a formula, but I would argue that many of the books you've listed are quite different from each other, with a few exceptions. I COMPLETELY disagree that Evernight is a copy of Twilight. Other than the vampires, there is nothing in common between those two books. So yes, there are some books that end up with a predictableness about them, but within the paranormal romance genre, there's still plenty of room for creative and interesting twists, and I've read some really great ones. (Including a couple from your list.)
Regardless, you can usually tell by the blurb on a book's cover if it's going to have a central romance theme, and if that's not something you're interested in, you don't have to read it.