I know what you said but I still do not know what you MEAN. How can you broadbrush paint a “status” as wicked??? Unless it’s something like “serial killer?”
The status of step parent is wicked in the sense that it not the best relationship child to adult. Every child deserves an intact biological family; a bio mom and dad.
If the step parent is more loving than the bio parent, the child probably feels bad about it because the child’s deepest if unarticlated yearning is for their own bio parent.
If the step parent is less loving then we know what the child feels.
Even if a child does not have the feelings set forth above, the child is then lacking in a primal response which is natural and beneficial in so many ways.
Better to live alone if one is divorced with children. That is if one loves their children.