i just never was a big tomato sauce fan...especially as a kid. pizza seemed boring and i hated the texture of chunks of tomatoes in anything. Spaghetti was boring and bland to me, and so was pizza sauce. thats why to this day i still dont get when a tomato sauce is "outstanding", it all tastes the same to me. doesnt mean i wont eat it.
in 3rd grade, each kid got to be student of the week. when your week came up u made a big poster and one of the things u put on it was your favorite food. every single kid, except for me and a girl from India, put pizza as their favorite food. she put an Indian dish and I put egg salad.
also pizza can very easily just be sloppy and with lots of sauce...people used to rave about Mary's pizza shack, which was by my house, and everytime there was so much sauce the cheese would just slide off. gross as fuck. so i went to the next closet place as a kid, Villa Roma, and got the chicken and jalapeno combo with "less" sauce.