I love spicy food and will generally order my dishes with quite a bit of heat. I figure my heat tolerance is about as high as it gets in the “normal human being” category, right before you start getting into Scoville counting and pepper-eating contests.
Anyway. I love spicy food, and yet I prefer my salsa mild. Give me hot sauce for my dish, but with my chips I just want to taste tomato and cilantro and maybe a hint of pepper. Go figure.
I love spicy food too, and yet if I order Pad Thai and they ask me what heat level, I say “medium”. My wife, who loves spicy food as well, says “wimp”. 
But I’ve heard Pad Thai is not supposed to be a particularly spicy dish, and I think adding too much spice just jacks it up.
I don’t think that’s a strange choice at all.
I love spice as well but I don’t want everything to be hot. Balance, proportions, contrast…these are all crucial to enjoying a meal.
I had a cracking meal in a covered market in Bangkok where the minced beef dish was arse-wateringly hot but it was served with sticks of raw choi-sum served in ice-water. The contrast was perfect.
I like beer, am pretty knowledgeable about it, used to be a fairly avid homebrewer, have had all sorts of beer in Europe (Belgium, England, Scotland, Netherlands, Hungary and Czech Republic), as well as craft brews in Texas, Colorado, California, Nebraska, S. Dakota and Wyoming.
And yet, I prefer regular garden-variety pale lagers most of the time. Most ales, stouts and porters are a “sometimes” thing (as the term is with the kids) for me, and something along the lines of a Czech/German pilsner, helles, Dortmunder export or even Mexican lagers are where it’s at for me most of the time.
Oh, My God! I’d get so Banned and Divorced if I answered this truthfully.
I drink a lot of wine. Mostly red.
I tend to prefer the fresher, fruitier styles - ‘squeeze it, ferment it, bottle it, drink it’ - over more ‘aged’ wines. I understand the process of producing wines for cellaring properly, and I’ve had many - I just prefer (well-made) wines without great aging characteristics.
Aged wines can taste amazing - but to me, more on a technical level rather than straight out ‘what I want to drink’.
And if anyone thinks I don’t see enough good wines, and don’t know enough about this subject - I run wine tours for a living (a pretty lousy living during COVID 
).
The best wine is the wine you like best.
There’s nothing I love more than really complex trading strategies in the derivatives markets.
Most of my trading is simply selling puts and writing calls in a retirement account.
I’m a huge coffee fan, I have a barista-style coffee machine, I grind my own beans, I love to taste and discuss coffee with friends.
However, my first cup of the day is the cheap instant stuff that my husband buys for himself.
Being addicted to caffeine, I don’t fully wake up until that first cup is finished, so any fine coffee would be wasted on morning me, not to mention not having enough manual dexterity yet to operate machinery.
I love coca cola and yet I prefer water.
i love hot-fudge-topping with bowl of vanilla ice-cream … and yet i prefer hot-rhubarb-topping with bowl of vanilla ice-cream.
I prefer Cru Beaujolais which is sort of in between. I guess if I found a good fresh wine I’d prefer it, because a lot of aged wine tastes better if you air it out for awhile which I don’t always have time to do, but it’s a crapshoot for any given fresh or aged wine whether it will have an off taste to it in the first place. Sometimes the weirder fruit flavors will mellow out with time but when people take care to age a wine they will often take care to age it in oak which usually but not always makes it taste worse to me. (The most egregious example of this I can remember was an American rose Gamay which tasted like it was soaked in oak chips, which didn’t comport with the expected taste at all relative to the look and smell.)
I love quality, hot black tea, yet I prefer to drink Diet Pepsi. I find it more convenient and something about the carbonation just wakes up my mouth and my brain quickly. Tea can have more caffiene, but the rise and fall of it is gentle, not a jolt. I usually need the jolt. Why diet? I dislike the effect of sugar. Why Pepsi and not Coke? DP uses phenylalanine. DC uses aspartamine, which can give me side effect issues.
I love reading, and yet I prefer watching movies, then I can take a nap.
I love ice cream, and yet I prefer twice as much ice cream.