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Same for me regarding AUs - if it's too far from canon I just lose interest, because they don't feel like the characters for me. What makes an AU interesting imo is the interaction between the AU and canon. If that doesn't exist, I don't really get into it (hence my massive lack of interest in all the coffee shop AUs, say. I'm also very picky about my fantasy staying fantasy of some sort).
The only fandom I ever got mildly into without knowing the canon was way back in the heyday of Gundam Wing. I read a bunch of fics, and then searched out the source material. Which I loved, and then couldn't read a single fic ever again because I had no idea how they got from a series all about politicking to... whatever it was the fandom was going on about.
For me if anything writing fanfics allows me to try writing types of characters I wouldn't necessarily have come up with on my own. Rather than push them into the squares I like, I try to figure them out, and I think it has helped me over the years find more character voices and write more diverse types.